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The National Information Infrastructure (NII) alluded to earlier is basically the network of computers upon which the nation-state and its people rely in this information-knowledge age. The NII is the high-technology, critical information infrastructure of a nation-state. The critical infrastructures, according to several nation-states, are generally defined as systems whose incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on the defense or economic security of the nation-state. They include:
Telecommunications,
Electrical power systems,
Gas and oil,
Banking and finance,
Transportation,
Water supply systems,
Government services, and
Emergency services.
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