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Industrial Distribution, January, 2002 by Harper, Doug

Not since the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor has an event burned itself into the collective consciousness of Americans as did the September 11 attack on New York's World Trade Center. But unlike Pearl Harbor, the Trade Center disaster demonstrated the apparent ease with which a small group of international terrorists can strike America.

Computer technology plays an important role in this new world crisis. In a 1999 study entitled "The New Terrorism," the prestigious Rand Corp. warned that terrorist groups were relying increasingly on computers to revolutionize the way they organize and carry out attacks. The report pointed out that terrorists based in Afghanistan had adopted information technology as a means to communicate without being detected by...

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