Skating on Stilts: Why We Aren’t Stopping Tomorrow’s Terrorism

by Stewart Baker

eBook Details:

Publisher: Hoover Institution Press 2010
ISBN/ASIN: 0817911545
ISBN-13: 9780817911546
Number of pages: 375

eBook Description:
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 yield to security, especially as technology changes the risks to both.