TAILIEUCHUNG - Chapter1: Secure Communication in Modern Information Societies

We are presently witnessing mergers and takeovers of unprecedented speed and extent be-tween companies once thought to have national identities, or at least clearly identifiablelines of products or services. | Cambridge Cambridge University Press 052180731X - Secure Communicating Systems Design Analysis and Implementation Michael R A Huth Excerpt More information CHAPTER 1 Secure Communication in Modern Information Societies ELECTRONIC COMMERCE THE MANTRA OF Y2K We are presently witnessing mergers and takeovers of unprecedented speed and extent between companies once thought to have national identities or at least clearly identifiable lines of products or services. On the day this paragraph was written the British Vodaphone AirTouch announced an Internet alliance with the French conglomerate Vivendi. The deal was conditional on Vodaphone s hostile takeover of Germany s Mannesmann and in the end did establish a branded multi-access portal in Europe. About a week later the takeover of Mannesmann was official - the biggest ever and friendly. MCI s attempted takeover of Sprint is another example of a strategically advantageous combination of different information technologies. January 2000 saw CNN NTV and the Deutsche Handelsblatt a direct competitor to the Financial Times launch a multimedia product for stock market news that is accessible via television printed newspapers and the World Wide Web. And so it goes. Although many differing views are held regarding the causes and consequences of these phenomena we would probably all agree that they reflect a certain shift of emphasis from production-based economics to one grounded in the processing marketing and access of information. Whether the products themselves are merely information or systems for managing and processing vast amounts of data information systems are seen as a crucial strategic means for organizing improving and maintaining more traditional production cycles. Such a shift could not have been achieved without the creation of reliable dense and global electronic information networks that offer the full spectrum of accessibility modes that conventional information carriers allow. This spectrum ranges from .

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