Editing Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics (section)

==Real-world usage==
{{main|Computer security|Intrusion detection system}}
Though real-life [[firewall (networking)|firewalls]], [[anti-virus software]] and similar programs fall under this classification, the term has little real world significance and remains primarily a [[science fiction]] concept. This can be attributed to the fact that using the term "electronics" to describe software products (such as firewalls) is something of a [[misnomer]]. On the other hand, there is a strong connection between real-world [[cybercrime]] and cyberpunk literature.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wall |first1=D.S. |title=The Construction of Crime |date=2012 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |editor1-last=Gregoriou |editor1-first=C. |pages=4–18 |chapter=The Devil Drives a Lada: the social construction of hackers as cybercriminals |chapter-url=}}</ref> "The Gibsonian concept of cyberspace [...] fed back into both computer and information systems design and theory," wrote Roger Burrows.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burrows |first1=Roger |editor1-last=Westwood |editor1-first=Sallie |editor2-last=Williams |editor2-first=John |title=Imagining Cities: Scripts, signs, memories |date=1997 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |pages=235–48 |chapter-url=https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/8232287/imagining.cities.scripts.signs.memories.dec.1996_jlu.pdf?1328221797=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DTHIS_HERE_NOW.pdf&Expires=1594913570&Signature=dNEEVxmg2atTvH-BuY5jZJK~ow8ofzjOJFUJi1~MXPn9lyuex7i5hbVU4cXT02kweU7CxA5p8fDta~R3slaqLNGKrIjbqWVI0tcKflb4TcjADqa399Ueo9oAOIFW8zDrf2Pkxbsh3xshiUWFVWRtKkYTTErNeG33jNSm0oYcWPh9MsT2mNcuC5nCpysqVmxyz4HfZEjpB28QK79IbITs~iRStXFrDP9mzgPa6oGWIqjNoWE0pK-qKTcCu6mZN1brM-LM-4nG6VSUEPvbc0tbKYMbGJ~dtUAj5Czg3kwOzXtaDFagtGUROlh-AziCyJ-HBmQIUMgZcKXDwbVq8NtTjg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA#page=244 |chapter=Cyberpunk as Social Theory}}</ref>

The term ICE has occasionally been used for real-world software:
* ''BlackICE'', an [[intrusion detection system]] built by a California company named Network ICE in 1999, acquired by [[IBM Internet Security Systems]], then discontinued in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Edwards |first1=M |title=BlackICE |url=https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/blackice |website=ITPro Today |access-date=16 July 2020 |date=8 December 1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Naraine |first1=Ryan |title=IBM kills off BlackICE firewall |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-kills-off-blackice-firewall/ |website=ZDNet |publisher=CBS Interactive |access-date=16 July 2020}}</ref>
* The [[ICE (cipher)|ICE cipher]], an encryption algorithm, may be inspired by Gibson's ICE, but it is explained as meaning "Information Concealment Engine".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kwan |first1=Matthew |title=Fast Software Encryption |chapter=The design of the ICE encryption algorithm |journal=Proceedings of Fast Software Encryption - Fourth International Workshop, Haifa, Israel |series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science |date=1997 |volume=1267 |pages=69–82 |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2FBFb0052335.pdf |publisher=Springer-Verlag|doi=10.1007/BFb0052335 |isbn=978-3-540-63247-4 }}</ref>
* The Java bytecode verifier in the Apache ByteCode Engineering Library (BCEL) is called JustIce (see the 'docs' folder for documentation).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/apache/commons-bcel/blob/master/docs/verifier/JustIce.lyx|title=JustIce|last=Haase|first=Enver|website=[[GitHub]] }}</ref>

On April 28, 2009, the Information and Communications Enhancement Act, or ICE Act for short, was introduced to the [[United States Senate]] by Senator [[Tom Carper]] to make changes to the handling of [[information security]] by the federal government, including the establishment of the National Office for Cyberspace.<ref name="ICEAct">{{cite web|url=http://searchcompliance.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid195_gci1354854,00.html|title=ICE Act would restructure cybersecurity rule, create White House post|last=Howard|first=Alexander B.|publisher=SearchCompliance|date=2009-04-28|access-date=2010-05-07|archive-date=2009-11-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108184204/http://searchcompliance.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid195_gci1354854,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="ICEAct-OpenCongress">{{cite web|url=http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s921/show|title=S.921 - U.S. ICE Act of 2009|publisher=OpenCongress|access-date=2010-05-07|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100831005015/http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s921/show|archive-date=2010-08-31}}</ref>