Exploring Governments' Views on the Threats of Cyberterrorism

As Attorney General John Ashcroft fielded reporters' questions last Tuesday about the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, one journalist asked if a new computer worm, discovered only hours earlier, was in any way related to the terrorist . . . As Attorney General John Ashcroft fielded reporters' questions last Tuesday about the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, one journalist asked if a new computer worm, discovered only hours earlier, was in any way related to the terrorist strikes. It was not, Ashcroft assured the nation--or at least, there was as yet no evidence linking it to Osama bin Laden and his ilk.

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