Sustainability and Information Safety

• Autorzy: Joost Platje , Lesław Trzmielewski
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

In this article some aspects of information safety are discussed within the context of sustainable development. The importance of access to information is discussed in Section 2.1. However, as is argued in Section 2.2, there are cases when access to information should be limited because it can be a threat to sustainability. In such a case information should be protected. In Section 3.1 the security of sending electronic messages are discussed within the context of the costs and benefits of different types of protection. Some empirical research on decoding passwords for electronic messages is presented in Section 3.2. In Section 4 the main findings of this paper are summarised, and one of the conclusions is that information safety depends on the costs of breaking a code and an efficient institutional environment enforcing property rights on information. (fragment of text)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Sustainable development; Information security; Access to information; Electronic document; Electronic communication

PL

Rozwój zrównoważony; Bezpieczeństwo informacji; Dostęp do informacji; Dokument elektroniczny; Elektroniczna komunikacja

• Czasopismo: Economic and Environmental Studies
• Rocznik: 2004
• Numer: Vol. 6
• Strony: 279--287

Twórcy

autor

Joost Platje

• Opole University, Poland

autor

Lesław Trzmielewski

• The International School for Logistics and Transport in Wrocław, Poland

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