Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 370 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0817911561
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9780817911560
Series Statement:
Hoover Institution Press publication no. 591
Content:
Stewart A. Baker, a former Homeland Security official, examines the technologies we lovejet travel, computer networks, and biotechand 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-352) and index
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IntroductionSkating 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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0817911545
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0817911251
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817911546
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817911256
Additional Edition:
Print version Skating on stilts
Language:
English
