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2.2 Seriousness of the Threat
There is no doubt that cybersecurity is a serious problem due to the widespread dependency on computer and computer systems, and their extraordinary vulnerability. But how much of a problem? This is a difficult issue to analyze because (as we learned in 2.1) metrics are hard to come by in the cybersecurity realm, and because many actors have incentives to exaggerate the threat.
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