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This 6 page paper takes a look at the terrorist act that expands the capabilities of the FBI and other agencies in terms of electronic surveillance. Cyberterrorism and how it is combatted through new legislation is the focus of this paper. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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2004). Computers and the networks they form, actually control many things in the physical world including important infrastructures like electricity and drinking water and because things are controlled electronically, there
are implications for public safety as well as for the national economy (2004). When New York City endured a black-out in 2003, many people autonomically thought it could be
terrorism. As it turns out, it was an unfortunate accident, but when the lights went out on European shores in the same time frame, people began to wonder. Indeed, even
if this was not cyberterrorism, such attacks can happen. When looking at the "rise of cyberterrorism" today, all that is witnessed is a growing movement that threatens computers and
the systems it runs. There have been no large-scale cyberattacks, certainly nothing along the lines of a 9/11. Still, the threat is there. Verton (2004) explains that Al-Qaeda cells operate
through large databases that contain details of possible targets in the United States. They make use of the Internet in order to collect intelligence data on the targets they
are interested in (2004). The targets are accessed with software that allows them to study the structural weaknesses that the facilities possess, as well as to be able
to predict the effect of failure when attacking (2004). This is what the terrorists are doing today. Yet, cyberterrorism has the potential to escalate. Of course, it is
important to note that cyber-terrorism means many different things. Verton (2004) sees a "more flexible definition of the term cyber-terrorism." He explains that society cannot look at cyber-terrorism in such
a way where someone is just hacking or disrupting with the use of a computer, but rather that traditional or physical methods of terrorism can have significant cyber
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