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Information Technology (IT) has become central to the way governments, terrorist and criminal organizations, businesses, and social movements organize themselves and pursue their increasingly globaized objectives. With the emergence of the internet and new digital technologies, traditional boundaries and traditional concepts - from privacy, to surveilance, vulnerability, and above all, security - must be reconsidered. In the post-9/11 eara of "homeland security" the relationship between IT and security has acquired a new and pressing relevace. `Bomb & Bandwidth`, a project of the Social Science Recearch Council, assebles leading scholars in range of disciplines to explore the nature of IT-related threats, the new power structures emerging around IT, and the ethical and political limplications arising form this complex and important field. ISBN 8170491924
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Pages : 326
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