Skating on stilts: why we aren't stopping tomorrow's terrorism
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1. Verfasser: Baker, Stewart A., (Stewart Abercrombie) (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, Calif. Hoover Institution Press c2010
Schriftenreihe:Hoover Institution Press publication 591
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-352) and index
Introduction -- Skating on Stilts -- Atta's Soldier -- To the Wall -- Never Again -- Europe Picks a Privacy Fight -- To the Brink -- Al Qaeda's Frequent Traveler Program -- Privacy Victims in the Air -- Moore's Outlaws -- Big Brother's Revenge -- Invested in Insecurity -- Smallpox in the Garage -- What's Wrong with Privacy? -- Privacy for the Real World -- Endnotes -- About the Author -- Index
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 370 p.)
ISBN:9780817911560
0817911561
9780817911256
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