One countermeasure: Switch some money into a more respectable currency, like the Swiss franc.

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That would have obvious military applications, even if one countermeasure is obvious, too: surrounding sensitive installations with giant candles.

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Worried vote-riggers may be driven to commission a countermeasure from a friendly mathematician.

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As a nonpartisan voter, this bill appears simply to be a delaying countermeasure.

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In truth, for every measure there is a countermeasure and by and large, the positive effects of technology far outweigh the negative ones.

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Now security researchers have found at least one specimen of cybercriminal software that responds with the next logical countermeasure: It hijacks the phone, too.

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And just about every technical countermeasure that brilliant engineers devised to protect vital computer systems and valuable information can be accidentally or intentionally circumvented by human interaction.

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It might well take some sort of countermeasure.

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