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New Weapons of Mass Identity Destruction

Roberto Preatoni writes on Zone-H News:

No doubt about the fact that a digital attack could be as dangerous as a bombing or a military action. This is what we have learnt day by day monitoring the Net and this is also the theory that stands at the base of a study by Doctor Stephen Haag, an associate dean at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver who has studied this matter for a long time and who now works as paid consultant for several U.S. government agencies such as NASA, the Air Force and the EPA.

According to Dr. Haag, the offensive strategy that is more likely to hit the USA in next months, will pass through the digital ground and specifically will be focused on identity terrorism.

There’s a fundamental difference between normal identity theft and identity terrorism that is, whereas a case of identity theft involves a monetary fraud, terrorists aim to destroy huge amount of identities at the same time provoking big damages to a country's crucial aspects.

posted by Fergie @ 10/16/2006 01:43:00 PM