The disease will exacerbate the decline of the country's population, reduce its ability to put a decent-sized army into the field and, given that it has not yet abandoned pretensions to have a comprehensive health service, drain its tax revenues.

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The Northumberland service said false alarms were a "drain on the public purse".

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In addition to scanning the code of an app, the service will watch for fishy behavior such as excess battery drain and abnormal resource consumption.

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