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Cyber Terrorism and Information Warfare: Threats and Responses (Terrorism Library Series)

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The book was officially released in June 2001, just a few months before the terrorist attacks on the US. Which makes the book's relevance even more compelling. Subsequent investigations of the terrorists have shown how they communicated in part using readily available email. Here, they used the very advanced nature of the US against it.

Read now, in the light of 2001's events, some of the book's sections take on a prescient tone. One can expect a future adversary (or an existing one) to take a similar asymmetric strategy. Perhaps such methods might involve more than just using the Internet as a communications channel? Which is a relatively passive usage, compared to speculations of more active measures like sabotage.