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...banks with a keyboard than a mask and gun. Will terrorists figure out how to shut down the banking system and strangle the economy? Information technology controls the nation's physical infrastructure--nuclear plants, air-traffic control, water systems--like a central nervous system. "Hits against the IT network will cascade to the other critical infrastructures," Stolfo said. (Consider the cascading effect of this year's blackout...
Generals, the saying goes, are always fighting the last war. With the nation understandably focused on aviation security and biological, nuclear and chemical threats, technologists hope their message--that network vulnerabilities are real and that a significant failure could muck up everything else--is getting through. Security risk is a shifting balance between individual and institutional responsibilities and vigilance. Or, as Geer succinctly put it, "The price of freedom is the probability of crime...
...CANCELLED. THE REAGANS, a four-hour cbs miniseries about Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy, after Republicans complained that it was biased against the former U.S. President; in New York. The network shifted the TV series, which portrays Reagan as out of touch with reality, to pay channel Showtime; critics accused producers of surrendering their artistic independence...
...problem Smith demonstrates should be familiar to him through his economics classes as the survivor bias and the network effect, whereby the idea that western literature and ideas are superior is self-perpetuating and anyone skeptical of such a claim is dismissed as a multiculturalist out of touch with western reality. I suggest that before Smith continues extolling Western forefathers as veritas he challenge his ingrained beliefs, perhaps reading Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States or Diop’s The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality, and only after learning...
...Slater says he will now have to convince the University that he has not violated Diebold’s copyright or risk having a copyright violation on his student record—two of which will result in the loss of University network access for a year...