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What is the difference between safety and security?

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Question What is the difference between safety and security in the context of information management or computer science? Elaboration This could be the canonical answer for people searching for it. Let me know if superuser.com is the wrong site for this question. I have, of course, googled it and h…

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Safety is generally thought of in terms of data integrity. Backups, checksums, etc all ensure that the data is safe from failure. Security is protecting data from unauthorized access, such as private info being viewed by a trojan, or database tables…

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