Neal Pollard and I have published an analysis of the implications of cyberterrorism that focuses on the information discussed in today’s issue of the Washington Post.
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This article which appears in the June 27 edition of the Washington Post, if proven true, substantially changes the near-term cyberterrorism threat landscape. The TRC will likely issue a media release regarding this story, which I will post here. Washington Post Article

This article from Time magazine is a perfect example of a journalist twisting interview comments to convey the journalist’s message rather than the opinions of the interviewee.
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Looking forward to InfoWarCon this year. I’ve arranged a series of speakers that include John Sullivan, Jason Healey, Neal Pollard and Walter Purdy. The Terrorism Research Center is a sponsor of the conference and several of us will be there throughout the conference portion (not the workshops).
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TechTV’s Cybercrime show interviewed me regarding Jim Bell’s “Assassanitation Politics” essay. This was a tough interview as elements of the Bell case walk a fine line between civil liberties and civil security.
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An interesting article from Newfactor that discusses our original DIRT concept from 1996.
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The devost.net domain has been officially moved to the new server and new site format. Unfortunately, my previous hosting provider had serious billing issues and I won’t be using them any more.

This is the original copy of my 1995 thesis on information warfare. While I had written earlier essays on the topic, the thesis really represented my thinking and research during the 1993-1995 timeframe.
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I stole this from Eric’s site. It is an interesting implementation of a search engine with graphical results displayed in a spider’s web format with the most significant hit showing up at the largest node. I especially like results that are returned for the keyword “terrorism”.

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I will serve as one of five masterminds during this global summit exploring cyberterrorism and critical infrastructure protection on August 21-23, 2002Conference Info