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==Full Title of Reference==

Cyber Terrorism: A Clear and Present Danger, the Sum of All Fears, Breaking Point or Patriot Games?

==Full Citation==

Michael Stohl, ''Cyber Terrorism: A Clear and Present Danger, the Sum of All Fears, Breaking Point or Patriot Games?'' (2006), Journal of Crime, Law and Social Change, Vol. 46, No. 4. 

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==Categorization==

Issues: [[Media Perceptions]]

==Key Words== 

[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cybersecurity/Glossary_of_Core_Ideas#Digital_Pearl_Harbor Digital Pearl Harbor]

==Synopsis==

Over the past two decades there has developed a voluminous literature on the 
problem of cyber terrorism. The themes developed by those writing on cyber terrorism 
appear to spring from the titles of Tom Clancy’s fiction, such as Clear and Present 
Danger, The Sum of All Fears and Breaking Point, or somewhat more cynically, Patriot 
Games. This essay examines both the gap between the presumed threat and the known 
cyber terror behaviors and the continuing literature which suggests an attack is imminent. It 
suggests that at least part of the explanation lies both in the continuing failure to distinguish 
between what Denning (Activism, hacktivism, and cyber terrorism: The internet as a tool 
for influencing foreign policy, 1999) referred to as hactivism and cyberterrorism and also 
the failure to distinguish between the use of digital means for organizational purposes 
(information, communication, command and control) and the use of digital communications 
to actually commit acts of terror. 


==Additional Notes and Highlights==

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