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[FYI] (Fwd) The Internet is the Cause of Terrorist Acts
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- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 18:32:21 +0200
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From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic@WELL.COM>
Subject: The Internet is the Cause of Terrorist Acts
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The House of Lords is helpfully explaining the connection between the
Internet and terrorism.
--Mike
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhans
rd/pdvn/lds01/text/10914-03.htm Lord Howell of Guildford: ... The
new reality which some people are beginning to face and some of us
have argued about over the past five or six years since the age of
information technology and the Internet began is that power has been
transferred away from responsible governments or even irresponsible
governments into the hands of some good but some extremely dangerous
organisations. It may be said that flying airliners into skyscrapers
is not new technology, but the whole organisation of this devilish
plot was driven by e-mail, Internet, modern secret communication,
coding and ciphering of a kind which would not have been possible 10
or even five years ago. It enabled these people simply to programme
their aeroplanes, once they had seized them, to drive straight into
the World Trade Centre. So technology has transferred power and the
sooner democracies and governments understand that point the sooner
we shall be able to cope with the entirely new situation
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