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Baker Stewart A |
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Titolo |
Skating on stilts [[electronic resource] ] : why we aren't stopping tomorrow's terrorism / / Stewart A. Baker |
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Stanford, Calif., : Hoover Institution Press, c2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (385 p.) |
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Collana |
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Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; no. 591 |
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Soggetti |
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Terrorism - United States - Prevention |
Bioterrorism - United States - Prevention |
Cyberterrorism - United States - Prevention |
International relations and terrorism - United States |
United States Foreign relations |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part One: The Road to 9/11; Introduction: The Gift; 1. Skating on Stilts; 2. Atta's Soldier; 3. To the Wall; 4. Never Again; Part Two: Flight and Facts; 5. Europe Picks a Privacy Fight; 6. To the Brink; 7. Al Qaeda's Frequent Traveler Program; 8. Privacy Victims in the Air; Part Three: Tomorrow's Terrorism; 9. Moore's Outlaws; 10. Big Brother's Revenge; 11. Invested in Insecurity; 12. Smallpox in the Garage; Part Four: The Privacy Problem; 13. What's Wrong with Privacy?; 14. Privacy for the Real World |
EndnotesAbout the Author; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 yie |
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