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Skating on Stilts: Why We Aren't Stopping Tomorrow's Terrorism (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
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Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: JPS; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 767.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Stanford, United States
ISBN
9780817911546
SKU
V9780817911546
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About Baker
Stewart A. Baker was the first assistant secretary for policy at the United States Department of Homeland Security and the former general counsel of the National Security Agency.
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