Skating on stilts : why we aren't stopping tomorrow's terrorism

The Resource Skating on stilts : why we aren't stopping tomorrow's terrorism
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Skating on stilts : why we aren't stopping tomorrow's terrorism
Title remainder
why we aren't stopping tomorrow's terrorism
Statement of responsibility
Stewart A. Baker
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Stewart A. Baker, a former Homeland Security official, examines the technologies we love, jet travel, computer networks, and biotech, and finds that they are likely to empower new forms of terrorism unless we change our current course a few degrees and overcome resistance to change from business, foreign governments, and privacy advocates. He draws on his Homeland Security experience to show how that was done in the case of jet travel and border security but concludes that heading off disasters in computer networks and biotech will require a hardheaded recognition that privacy must sometimes yield to security, especially as technology changes the risks to both
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Cataloging source
MUU
Dewey number
363.325/170973
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Language note
English
LC call number
HV6432
LC item number
.B345 2010
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Hoover Institution Press publication
Series volume
no. 591

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