1st Edition

Technology and Terrorism

Edited By David Clarke Copyright 2004
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

In this volume, thirteen authors from all points of the English-speaking world provide a tour of the entwined labyrinths of technology and terrorism. They describe terrorism as an epistemological contact sport. With espionage, one can often deduce from a few pieces of the puzzle a plan's goals and its roots, its sources. But the goals of terrorists are both vague and hopelessly specific, while... Read more
1: The New Warfare and Old Truths: How Our Technologies are Still Our Allies; 2: The Shock of the Old; 3: WTC + 2 Update; 4: A Brief History of Terrorism in the United States; 5: Terrorism as Technology: A Discussion of the Theoretical Underpinnings; 6: Securing Through Technology? “Smart Borders” after September 11 th; 7: Hacktivism: Securing the National Infrastructure; 8: Terrorism and the Internet: Resistance in the Information Age; 9: Cyber Terror: Missing in Action; 10: Risk, Terrorism, and the Internet; 11: The Dark Side of Tinkering; 12: Code Wars: Steganography, Signals Intelligence, and Terrorism; 13: Morphing the Counter-Terrorist Response: Beating the Bombers in London’s Financial Heart; 14: Research after September 11: Security is Now the Sturdy Child of Terror 1; 15: The Academy and Fourth Generation Warfare

Biography

David Clarke