John Arquilla has a particularly interesting suggestion. He told Technology Today that since the United States is,
“…spending so much on military affairs, maybe some of that should be directed towards technologies that will break our opponents’ communications. In World War II, there was an investment in creating the first high-performance computers, for that very purpose. Today, it may be an investment in creating the most effective quantum computing or figuring out how to structure the vast ocean of data that masks the movements of al-Qaeda on the Net and the Web. We need a new Bletchley Park [the country house where the German WWII codes were broken], if we’re going to win this war.”
Related:
Three al-Qaeda propaganda websites have closed down after reportedly coming under cyber-attack from Western intelligence agencies.
