Hardware Security is usually the concern of a relatively small staff of computing center professionals. Software security is a larger problem, extending to all programmers and analysts who create or modify programs. Computer programs are written in a dialect intelligible primarily to computer professionals, so a leaked source listing of a program might very well be meaningless to the general public.
Printed data however can be readily interpreted by the general public. Because of its visible nature, a data attack is a more widespread and serious problem than either a hardware or software attack. Thus data items have greater public value than hardware and software, because more people know how to use or interpret data.
Typically both hardware and software have a relatively long life. No matter how they are valued initially their value usually declines gradually over time. By contrast the value of data over time is far less predictable or consistent. Initially data may be valued highly. However some data items are of interest for only a short period of time, after which their value declines precipitously. Read More
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