Digital jihad a reality?
Lee Gomes writes in Boomtown about how valid/severe the threat of a digital jihad is today in the Wall Street Journal (subscription require):
"A terrorist wants to go after a visual target, something that puts fear into people's minds," he said. "It's easiest just to blow something up. If you take a computer down, people will just say, 'Oh, those damn computers.' "
One can't help but notice that we seem to be spending ever-larger sums on esoteric technologies designed to foil terrorist attacks, while making only the most cursory efforts to dissuade terrorists in the first place. A just peace in the Middle East, for example, would do more to curb terrorism than all the homeland security offices in the world.