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Swiss pour cold water on our Internet dreams

October 6, 2015 by philg

The best answer for “how risky is that?” is generally “how much would it cost to insure against that?” Now Zurich, the Swiss insurance company founded in 1872, is saying that the cost of securing the Internet will exceed the benefits of connectivity by 2019: report.

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