Sociologists: Studying engineering turns you into a terrorist
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Oxford prof cites Google and Wikipedia as proof A pair of sociologists have produced a piece of research in which they claim that graduate engineers are statistically over-represented among jihadi terrorists. They go on to suggest that engineers have a "terrorist mindset" making them likelier to turn jihadi than other kinds of people.â¦
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A computer simulation of the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, posted on the Web site YouTube by Purdue University researchers, shows how hijacked planes crashed through the twin towers, stripping fireproofing materials from the steel columns and eventually leading to their collapse.
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William Langewiesche's new book on proliferation is quite scary. The good news is that he gets most of it wrong.
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This time it was doctors, but it could just as easily have been students, engineers or shop-keepers: the radical Islamist ideology apparently behind the recent failed attacks in Britain is not limited to one social class, experts say.
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By Lau, Andrew  An engineering professor confronts his conflicts with technology.  I AM A NEO-LUDDITE. Like the Luddites of early 19th-century England, I question and resist new technologies that will supposedly make life better and easier.
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When a pair of convenience store robbers use hot coffee as a weapon, a dozen other crooks steal their idea. But terrorists are not nearly that predictable. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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Companies, governments, and individuals are increasingly vulnerable to Internet attacks by terrorists and hackers.
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A University of New Hampshire professor   has come under fire from state politicians for teaching his   unconventional view that a U.S. government conspiracy allowed   the September 11, 2001 attacks to occur.
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Security researcher Christopher Soghoian reflects on the hard work that comes after finding a vulnerability.
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An increasingly networked infrastructure and a paucity of laws defining cybercrime could lead to disaster in Russia if terrorists such as Chechen separatists started turning their attention to electronic warfare, says one security expert there.
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I see that Cory Doctorow has made another panicked grab at relevancy once again! His most recent InformationWeek article, How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community, is his latest exercise in self-deception where he tries convincing himself that he knows something about the hip, happenin' thang we call the Innanet.        That Cory has little useful knowledge of keeping hostile jerks from taking over online communities is proven most aptly and amusingly by the way he chose to keep hostile jerks from taking over his weblog BoingBoing: he destroyed its community by shutting off its comments system.
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Imbedding security chips in possessions and pets is nothing new. Chipping people, however, has Orwellian overtones that angers civil libertarians and conservatives alike.
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"The terrorists try to brainwash the young because they are vulnerable"  Britain is funding a curriculum aimed at teaching children in Muslim religious schools how to steer clear of extremism, but some of the lessons are worrying Muslim educators.One lesson plan goes something like this: A group of Islamic extremists want to buy fertilizer that could be used to make a bomb. Should the shop keeper sell it to them? Or take Ahmad, whose friends want to attack a local supermarket in retaliation for the war in Iraq. Is it right for Ahmad to harm innocent Britons because their government invaded a Muslim country? Read more
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"Hazmat:Hotzone" is a networked multiplayer simulation that trains first responders to a terrorist attack.
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Blog: Original researcher makes public his own exploit code.
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The effort is changing into a terror war of its own.
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With the global spread of high-speed Internet connections and the relative anonymity afforded by the world's biggest and busiest sites, extremists have found a new theatre to display violence and anti-American ...Comment