Recommended Reading

 

Reading Books 

Suggested books and reviews

 

Year

Topic

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Asymmetric warfare

                 

Biodiversity

                 

Biological warfare

                 

Biometrics

                 

Biomechanism (Robobugs)

                 

Biopiracy

                 

Biotechnology

                 

Bioterrorism

                 

Business integration

                 

Chemical warfare

                 

E-commerce

                 

Computer crime

                 

Computer science

                 

Counterintelligence strategy

                 

Crisis Management

                 

Cryptography

                 

Cybersecurity

                 

Ecology

                 

Economics

1999

               

Export

                 

Export Knowledge

                 

Ethos

                 

Evolution

                 

Forensic DNA

                 

Genetic history

                 

Information security

                 

Information warfare

                 

Innovation

                 

Intelligence

                 

Internet - Social revolution

                 

Investor's guide

                 

Law on the Internet

                 

Logistics

1997 /1998

               

Marketing

1997/1998

               

Medical microbiology

                 

Nanotechnology

                 

National Security & Scientific Research

                 

Netwar Theory

                 

Networked organization

                 

Olfactory system

                 

Peptides

                 

Protein

                 

Psycological operations

                 

Quotations

                 

Resources on the Internet

                 

Science in Iraq

                 

Security (incl. Identity Theft)

                 

Process simulation

                 

Protein biochemistry

                 

Science and Commerce

                 

Space war

                 

Strategy

                 

Teamwork

                 

Technology

                 

Terrorism

                 

The web

                 

War

                 

Key

  Yes

 No

 

 

 

 

 

1997

Topics: Information warfare (4 ), Logistics (5), Resources on the Internet (2, 6 ),  Strategy (1, 3)

  1. A world of secrets - the uses and limits of intelligence by Walter Laqueur (A Twentieth Century Fund Book - Basic Books Inc. Publisher, New York, 1985)
  2. Cancer resources on the Internet - M. Sandra Wood and Eric P. Delozier, Editors (The Haworth Press, Inc. - New York and London, 1997)
  3. If Aristotle ran General Motors by Tom Morris (Henry Holth and Company, New York, 1997)
  4. Information warfare (second edition) by Winn Schwartau (Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 1996)
  5. Enterprise logistics in the information era by Noel P. Greis and John D. Kasarda - California Management Review 39 (1997), 55 - 78
  6. The Internet handbook for writers, researchers and journalists by Mary McGuire, Linda Stilborne, Melinda McAdams, Laurel Hyatt (The Guilford Press, New York - London, 1997)

 

1998

   Topics: Biotechnology (3, 4, 5 . 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 , 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 ),  Information warfare  (19), Investor's Guide (2), Marketing (9), Strategy (1, 18)

  1. The search for digital excellence by James P. Ware, Judith Gebauer, Amir Hartman, Malu Roldan (McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., New York, 1998)
  2. Every investor's guide to high-tech stocks & mutual funds by Michael Murphy (Broadway Books, New York, 1998)
  3. The biotech century by Jeremy Rifkin (Jeremy P. Tarcher / Putnam a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., New York, 1998)
  4. Guide to human genome computing edited by Martin J. Bishop (Academic Press, San Diego, CA - USA, 1998)
  5. Statistical genomics by Ben Hui Liu (CRC Press, Boca Raton New York - USA, 1998)
  6. Cancer treatments - TIME - May 18, 1998 - A selection of the websites devoted to cancer is reported.
  7. Who's who in genes - BusinessWeek - May 25 (1998), 71 - 72 .Here are some key players that want to unlock the secrets of genes: AXYS, GENSET, HUMAN GENOME SCIENCES, HYSEQ, INCYTE, MERCK, MYRIAD.
  8. Biotech's secret garden - The Economist - May 30 (1998), 75 - 77
  9. Asia: the global impact - BusinessWeek - June 1 (1998), 52 - 66
  10. Biology in silico - Forbes - June 1 (1998), 119 - 120
  11. Biotech bodies by Catherine Arnst and John Carey - BusinessWeek - July 27 (1998), 42 - 49  .Some of the companies with big plans in the area of tissue-engineering are the following: ADVANCED TISSUE SCIENCES, ATRIX LABORATORIES, BIOMATRIX, CREATIVE BIOMOLECULES, CYTOTHERAPEUTICS, GUILFORD PHARMACEUTICALS, GENZYME TISSUE, INTEGRA LIFESCIENCES, LIFECELL, ORGANOGENESIS, ORTEC INTERNATIONAL, REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS.
  12. Microchip arrays put DNA on the spot by R.F. Service - Science 282 (1998), 396 - 399
  13. Coming soon: the pocket DNA sequencer - by R. F. Service - Science 282 (1998) 399 - 401
  14. Fomenting a revolution, in miniature - by I. Amato - Science 282 (1998) 402 - 405
  15. Gene Readers - by I. Wickelgren - Popular Science (Nov. 1998) 57 - 61- Places where the chips (also called arrays) are crafted: Affimetrix (Santa Clara, CA, USA), Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, IL, USA) and Russian Academy of Science (Moscow), Hyseq (Sunnyvale, CA, USA) Incyte Pharmaceuticals (Palo Alto, CA, USA), Nanogen (San Diego, CA) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
  16. The chips are coming by W. Wells at <http://www.gene.com/ae/AB/BA/biochip.html>
  17. Company says it has made human cells revert to the embryonic state - New York Times, November 12 (A24) . The company, Advanced Cell Technology,  said the cells might be (i) grown into a clone of their donor and (ii) guided into becoming any of the body´s tissue types for transplantation.
  18. Pit Bull - Lessons from Wall Street´s Champion Trader - by Martin "Buzzy" Schwartz with Dave Morine and Paul Flint - Harper Business (1998) - "This is the true story of how Schwartz became the best of the best , of the people and places he discovered along the way, and of the trader´s tricks and techniques he used to make his millions."
  19. The next world war - Computers are the weapons and the front line is everywhere - by James Adam - Simon & Schuster (1998) "War has evolved through land, sea, air, space and now information. We believe that information is just another battle space."

 

1999

   Topics: Biotechnology ( 4 , 9, 10, 13, 14, 18), Economics ( 5) , Information warfare  ( 1, 6, 12 , 17), Investor's guide ( 15), Resources on the Internet( 2, 8, 19), Strategy ( 3, 7, 8, 11, 16)

  1. Information assurance: legal, regulatory, policy and organization considerations - 3rd edition (17 September 1997)- Department of Defense USA. - This report will assist people in formulating a comprehensive strategy to protect information, information systems and information-based processes in support of Joint Vision 2010 . The document can be found in soft copy on the INFOWAR.com homepage.
  2. The Internet - edited by Gray Young - The H.W. Wilson Company - New York - Dublin (1998)
  3. Judo Strategy by David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano in:Harvard Business Review (January - February 1999),71-81 - "Smart start-ups can avoid those conflicts by moving quickly to uncontested ground and, when that´s no longer possible, turning dominant players´ strengths against them.The authors call this competitive approach judo strategy (rapid movement, flexibility, leverage)."
  4. The Electronic Scholar: enhancing research productivity with technology by Dave L. Edyburn - Prentice Hall - New Jersey - Ohio (1999)
  5. New rules for the new economy 10 radical strategies for a connected world by Kevin Kelly (1998) - Viking Penguin
  6. The Looming Threat of Bioterrorism by Donald A. Henderson - Science 283 (1999), 1279 - 1282  - Important distinctions between chemical and biological terrorism are reported.
  7. Managing knowledge. A practical web-based approach by Wayne Applehans, Alden Globe, Greg Laugero - Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series (Capers Jones, Series Editor) - Addison -Wesley (1999) - The knowledge architecture identifies three components: (i) technology, (ii) content (with better trust in the employees' expertise), (iii) people (suppliers and consumers of the technology content. " You'll know that managing knowledge is producing a positive ROI when you see (1) measurable efficiencies in product development, production, sales, and service cycles; (2) Improved decision-making at the front lines in the development, production, sales, and support cycles; (3) Better ability to get new partners...., (4) Improved morale because employees are making more effective decisions; (5) increasing customer loyalty due to better trust in the employees' expertise." (page 32)
  8. Knowledge and special libraries edited by James M. Matarazzo, Suzanne D. Connolly - Butterworth Heinemann (1998)
  9. Handbook of Biomaterials Evaluation: Scientific, Technical and Clinical  Testing of Implant Materials edited by Andreas F. von Recum- Taylor and Francis (1999 Second Edition)  The book contains the following sections: Bulk characterization, Surface characterization, Toxicological evaluations, In Vitro assessment of safety, Active implants, Implantology, Soft tissue histology, Hard tissue histology, Regulations, Clinical trials.
  10. Silica Aerogels at: Ernest Orlando Lawrence  Berkeley National Laboratory (Commercially available aerogels at Marketech International Inc. 
  11. The Valuation of Technology - Business and Financial Issues in R & D by F.Peter Boer - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. - New York (1999) - "Technology is the application of knowledge to useful objectives". The flow of this book is motivated by its goal: to show how R & D creates economic value. The most important intellectual source for this work is the classic book "The management of innovative technological corporations" by Simon Ramo - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. - New York (1980)
  12. Hiding Crimes in Cyberspace by Dorothy E. Denning and William E. Baugh, Jr. (1999) at: < http://cryptome.org/hiding-db.htm>
  13. Managing Agricultural Biotechnology  edited by J.J. Cohen (1999)
  14. Transgenic Animals in agriculture  edited by J.D. Murray, G.B. Anderson, A.M. Oberbauer and M.M. McGloughlin - CABI Publishing (1999)

Application and use of transgenic animal models

in agriculture, biomedical, biotechnological and veterinary disciplines

Animal production

Strategies for therapy of animal and human diseases

Genetic therapy

Disease resistance

Testing & screening for products

Product development ("molecular farming") *

Human organ replacement (xenotransplantation)


* Two U.S. companies [GeneWorks (Ann Arbor, Michigan) and AviGenics (Athens, Georgia)] have already produced genetically modified birds that can lay eggs containing drugs, proteins and antibodies (from: New Scientist, November 13, 1999)..

  1. Science and Technology as Predictors of Stock Performance by Zhen Deng, Baruch Lev and Francis Narin (1999) in : Association for Investment Management and Research (May - June), 20 - 32
  2. Conceptualizing Technological Change by Govindan Parayil (1999) - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. - Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford
  3. Loud and Clear - The most secret of secret agencies operates under outdated laws by James Bamford (1999) in Washington Post, Nov. 14 Page B01
  4. Beyond Evolution: the genetically altered future of plants, animals, the earth and ... humans by Michael W. Fox (1999) - The Lyons Press
  5. History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present by Christos J.P. Moschovitis, Hilary Poole, Tami Schuyler and Theresa M. Senft (1999), ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara (CA), Denver (CO, Oxford (England)

 

2000

   Topics: Biotechnology ( 6 , 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17 , 18), Security ( 1, 10), Simulation ( 11), Strategy ( 2, 3, 4, 5, 16, 19, 20)

  1. Peter Norton's Network Security Fundamentals by Peter Norton and Mike Stockman, SAMS (a division of Macmillan USA) (1999)

 

SECURITY DEVELOPMENTS - Governmental and Academic Organizations

 

CERT (= Computer Emergency Response Team) U.S.A.

http://www.cert.org

http://www.cert.org/advisories/

AusCERT Australia

http://www.auscert.org.au

AusCERT Australia

http://www.auscert.org.au/Information/Contact/irt.html

list of computer incident response teams from around the world.

CIAC (Computer Incident Advisory Capability) U.S.A.

http://ciac.llnl.gov

COAST (Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology)

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/coast

CERIAS (Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security)

http://www.cerias.purdue.edu

SANS Institute (System Administration, Networking and Security)

http://www.sans.org

Denial of Service Attack (DoS) Resources

http://www.denialinfo.com/

FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and security Teams)

http://www.first.org

 

SECURITY DEVELOPMENTS - Manufacturers' Web Sites

 

Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/security

OpenBSD

http://www.openbsd.org/security.htm

Sun Microsystems

http://sunsolve.sun.com/security

Silicon Graphics, Inc.

http://www.sgi.com/Support/security/advisories.html

Novell Inc.

http://www.novell.com/security

 

SECURITY and HACKER GROUPS

 

Security-Focus.com

http://www.securityfocus.com

L0pht Heavy Industries

http://www.l0pht.com

eEye digital security Team

http://www.eEye.com

NTBugTraq

www.ntbugtraq.com

NTSecurity

http://ntsecurity.ntadvice.com

NTSecurity.Net

http://www.ntsecurity.net

Rootshell

http://www.rootshell.com

2600

http://www.2600.com

Attrition.org

http://www.attrition.org

HNN

http://www.hackernews.com

Definition of Hackers: they are " simply those who enjoy delving deeply into the core of the systems they work with, and one of the areas they delve into most often is networking security. Hackers are the kinds of people who act quickly to develop software patches and updates to close security holes before your data is damaged. Crakers are the enemy. "(Peter Norton and Mike Stockman, 1999) (see also Usenet newsgroups:alt.hackers; alt.security;..)

  1. Knowledge engineering and management - The commoKADS methodology by Guus Schreiber, Hans Akkermans, Anjo Anjewierden, Robert de Hoog, Nigel Shadbolt, Walter Van de Velde, and Bob Wielinga, A Bradford Book, The MIT Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London (England) (2000) - For those who want to learn more about CommonKADS, this material is accessible through the website at < http://www.commonkads.uva.nl>. 
  2. The kept university  by Eyal Press and Jennifer Washburn in: The Atlantic Monthly, March 2000, 39 - 54 - "Commercially sponsored research is putting at risk the paramount value of higher education.... Universities themselves are behaving more and more like for -profit companies". The online version is available at the following address: http://the atlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2000/03/press.htm  in four parts. The linkage is the first and has links to the other parts.
  3. The Knowledge Management Toolkit by Amrit Tiwana , Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle Tiver, NJ (U.S.A.) (2000). To learn more about this title, point to www.kmtoolkit.com
  4. Knowledge and Strategy by Michael H. Zack (ed.), Butterworth - Heinemann, Boston (U.S.A.) (1999). See the presentation given at the 2nd World Congress on Management of Intellectual Capital
  5. The Virus Within by Nicholas Regush, A Dutton Book, New York (2000). The Author explores how "the environment around us acts upon an individual's DNA through a process of gene reshuffling"  (Howard Urnovitz).
  6. Agrobiodiversity: characterization, utilization and management - Edited by D. Wood and J.M.Lenne' - CABI Publishing, CAB International (1999), Wallingford, Oxon, UK; information about the Crop Protection Programme (CPP) can be found via the Internet at http://www.nrinternational.co.uk
  7. Origin and evolution of the vertebrate immune system - Edited by L. Du Pasquier and G.W. Litman (2000)- Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York
  8. XENO: the promise of transplanting animal organs into humans by David C.K. Cooper and Robert P. Lanza (2000) - Oxford University Press - Documents on this topic can be obtained from the FDA Home Page: http://www.fda.gov
  9. Intrusion Detection by   Rebecca Gurley Bace  (2000) - Macmillan Technical Publishing, Indianapolis (IN, U.S.A.). "Intrusion detection is the process of monitoring the events occurring in a computer system or network, analyzing them for signs of security problems....The term intrusion detection is also used by the military to refer to systems that monitor physical entities (such as communication cables) for evidence of tampering or other physical alterations. Military standards describe system functions and benchmarks for this area. In this book intrusion detection refers to the monitoring, detection, and response functions that target activity in computer systems and networks."   World Wide Web resources are listed.
  10. Simulation Modeling Methods by H. James Harrington and Kerim Tumay (2000), McGraw - Hill , New York (NY, U.S.A.) - "Simulation is a means of experimenting with a detailed model of a real system to determine how the system will respond to changes in its structure, environment, or underlying assumptions." [Charles Harrell and Kerim Tumay, "Simulation Made Easy: A Manager's Guide" (Norcross, GA: Industrial Engineering and Management Press, 1995)]

Computer

Approach to Process Simulation 

  1. The future of computing: "Organic molecules can be exploited as electronic switches. Even the constituents of one cell, including DNA, RNA an proteins, can be pressed into service as logic circuits" See the following articles published on TECHNOLOGY REVIEW (2000), May - June:
  2. The end of Moore'law by Charles C. Mann - page 42 - 48 (Moore's Law: The power of technology doubles every 9 - 18 months and its march forward sees no end)
  3. Quantum computing by M. Mitchell Waldrop - pages 60 - 66
  4. Biological computing by Simson L. Garfinkel - pages70 - 77
  5. DNA computing by Antonio Regalado - pages 80 - 84
  6. Nanomedicine (Vol. 1 - Base capabilities) by Robert A. Freitas, Jr.  (the book is available on the Internet)
  7. Who wrote the book of life? A history of the genetic code by Lily E. Kay (2000) - Stanford University press, Stanford (CA, U.S.A.)
  8. Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology Vol. 40, 2000 (Annual Reviews, CA, U.S.A.). We suggest the following articles:
  9. Sequencing the entire genomes of free-living organisms: the foundation of pharmacology in the new millennium, by S. Broder and J.C. Venter (pages 97 - 132)
  10. Drug discovery in the new millennium, by E.H. Ohlstein et al (pages 177 - 191)
  11. The impact of genomics on drug discovery, by C.Debouck and B. Metcalf (pages 193 - 208)
  12. Simulation of clinical trials, by H.C. Kimko et al (pages 209 - 234)
  13. The impact of genomics-based technologies on drug safety evaluation, by J.F. Waring and R. G. Ulrich (pages 335 - 352)  
  14. Best Truth - Intelligence in the information age by Bruce D. Berkowitz and Allan E. Goodman (2000) - Yale University Press ( New Haven and London)
  15. Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering by Lisa Yount (2000), FactsOnFile, Inc., New York (N.Y., U.S.A.)
  16. The biology of animal stress - Basic principles and implications for animal welfare by G.P. Moberg and J.A. Mench (2000), CABI Publishing, Wallington (U.K.) - New York (NY, U.S.A.)
  17. The peloponnesian wars by Thucydides (translated by Benjamin Jowett, edited by P.A. Brunt) Twayne Publisher, Inc. New York, U.S.A. In particular: The Melian Dialogue: the freedom, the sense of honour, the safe rule, the interstate relations (Book V, pages 179 - 187).
  18. The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (Translation and commentary by Nihon Services Corp: Bradford J. Brown, Yuko Kashiwagi, William H. Barrett and Eisuke Sasagawa), Bantam Books, New York - Toronto - London - Sydney - Auckland (1982). A translation made by Victor Harris is available on the Internet ( http://www.samurai.com/5rings/ )

 

2001

   Topics: Biotechnology ( 13 , 14 ), Business Integration ( 6 ), e-Commerce ( 8 ), Computer science ( 1 , 18 , 19 ) , Cryptography ( 11 , 12 , 15 ) , Law of the Internet ( 4 , 5 ) , Security ( 2 , 3, 9, 10, 16, 1718 , 19  ) ) , Strategy ( 7 ), Terrorism ( 16 , 20 )

  1. A First Course in FUZZY LOGIC by Hung T. Nguyen and Elbert A. Walker; Chapman & Hall/CRC (Second Edition) Boca Raton, London, New York, Washington D.C. (2000) - "It is an introduction to the theory of fuzzy sets. Fuzzy sets are mathematical objects modeling the vagueness present in our natural language when we describe phenomena that do not have sharply defined boundaries. ... Fuzzy set theory provides a machinery for carrying out approximate reasoning processes when available information is uncertain, incomplete, imprecise, or vague. Whith the emergence of new tools in the area of computetional intelligence, ..this new theory is a welcome addition to the repertoire of appropriate tools. This is specially true when the intrinsic property of fuzziness and the heterogeneity of objects under study have to be taken into account in order to do a better job of representing knowledge-fitting data. The success of this methodology has been demonstrated in a variety of fields, such as control of complex system, where mathematical models are difficult to specify; in expert systems, where rules expressing knowledge and facts are linguistic in nature; and even in some areas of statistics, exemplified by categorical data analysis, where classes of objects are more fuzzy than crisp, and where the variability across objects needs to be modeled." (Hung T. Nguyen and Helbert A. Walker, 1999)
  2. International Crime Treat Assessment (December 2000) - This Global assessment was prepared by a US Government interagency working group in support of and pursuant to the President's International Crime Control Strategy. Representatives from the Central Intelligence Agency; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Drug Enforcement Administration; US Customs Service; US Secret Service; Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; National Drug Intelligence Center; the Departments of State, the Treasury, Justice, and Transportation; the Office of National Drug Control Policy; and the National Security Council participated in the drafting of this assessment.
  3. Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algoritms and Source Code in C by Bruce Schneier (1994), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York - Chichester - Brisbane - Toronto - Singapore
  4. Law of the Internet  by F. Lawrence Street (1997), Lexis Law Publishing, Charlottesville, Virginia
  5. Law of the Internet by George B. Delta and Jeffrey H. Matsuura (2000), Aspen Law & Business - Chapter 9 "Commerce": Transactions over the Internet, Contracts for The Sale of Goods, Electronic Commerce
  6. Integration Managers: Special Leaders for Special Time by Ronald N. Ashkenas and Suzanne C. Francis (2000) , Harvard Business Review, November -December, 108 - 116 - The Authors have focused the attention "on managing the integration of acquired companies. But the kind of leadership" here described "has wider implications".
  7. Strategy and the Internet by Michael E. Porter (2001), Harvard Business Review, March, 63 - 78. "The winners will be those that view the Internet as a complement to, not a cannibal of, traditional ways of competing.........Only by integrating the Internet into overall strategy will this powerful new technology become an equally powerful force for competitive advantage."
  8. e-Profit - High Payoff Strategies for Capturing the E-Commerce Edge by Peter S. Cohan (2000) - Amacon (American Management Association, New York - The book presents the following five key concepts of e- commerce: (i) strategic balance sheet analysis, (ii) competitive opportunity and threat analysis (gap analysis), (iii) e-commerce risk evaluation, (iv) enterprise value assessment, (v) e-commerce portfolio analysis. In particilar, the strategic balance sheet analysis in focused on the intangible assets (customer relationships, customer information, supply purchasing volume, technical service information) , making the following considerations:
    • which application (for example: web-based selling, web-based self service,...) the company needs to develop to extract  value from that specific intangible asset
    • the impact of the e-commerce application on the company's profits.
  9. The ultimate internet terrorist by Robert Merkle (1998), Paladin Press, Boulder, Colorado); a good reference is: The Avenger's Frontpage (http://www.ekran.no/html/revenge/).  (Note: please consider the difference between encoded and encrypted: a "code" is a substitution scheme for entire words and / or phrases; an encryption protocol (= cypher) substitutes individual letters with a standardized mathematical formula. (page 68 of the book)
  10. CyberShock (surviving hackers, phreakers, identity thieves, Internet terrorists and weapons of mass disruption) by Winn Schwartau (2000), Thunder's Mouth Press, New York
  11. The end of the code war? in: The Economist (2001), June 23, 76 - 77 The possible use of quantum mechanics to encrypt messages)
  12. An introductionj to cryptography by Richard A. Mollin (2001), Chapman & Hall / CRC, Boca Raton (website: http://www.math.ucalgary.ca/~ramollin/ )
  13. Opportunities in biotechnology for future army applications  - Board of Army Science and Technology (2001), National Acad Press (Washington, DC, U.S.A.) (web site: http://books.nap.edu/books/0309075556/html/index.html )
  14. Anthrax in: Nature (November 8, 2001)   
  15. Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption by Roland L. Rivest  at http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/chaffing.txt ; http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/publications.html The paper introduces a new technique, called "chaffing and winnowing" for achieving confidentiality, in addition to the major techniques that are: steganography and encryption. Examples of using authentication to achieve confidentiality occur: in baseball and in the Rex Stout's novel "The doorbell rang (a Nero Wolfe mystery) (Bantam Books, New York, U.S.A., 1965) 
  16. The science of terrorism : (i) the biology of anthrax, (ii) the physics of the 2001 World Trade Center terrorism at: http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/index.html
  17. The Great Game - The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkik (1992), Kodansha International, New York-Tokyo-London
  18. Maximum Security - A Hacker's Guide to Protecting Your Internet Site and Network (Second Edition) by Anonymous (1998) SAMS, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.   Difference between a Hacker and a Cracker - Mens Rea (page 74) "Applying mens rea (= the mental condition in which criminal intent exists) to the hacker - cracker equation, it seems simple enough the difference between the two activities. If the suspect unwittingly penetrated a computer system (and did so by methods that any law-abiding citizen would have employed at the time)there is no mens rea and therefore no crime.  However, if the suspect was aware that  a security breach was underway (and he or she knowingly employed sophisticated methods of implementing that breach) mens rea exists and a crime has been committed.  By this measure, at least from a legal point of view, the former is an unwitting computer user possibly a hacker) and the latter is a cracker.The term "cracked" refers to that condition in which the victim network has suffered an unauthorized intrusion." The different degrees of this condition are reported on page 86 of the book. A good source of information about "viruses" is at the Department of Energy  ( http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACVirusDatabase.html   On page 543 of the book, different levels of sensitivity in the netwok are reported. These levels of attack are defined numerically: from level one [(mail bomb attack, simple denial-of-service attack) being the least harmful] to level six [(remote users can write to privileged, remote users have root) being the most harmful].
  19. Internet Security Secrets by John Vacca (1996)  IDG Books, Foster City, CA, U.S.A.
  20. Fighting the network war by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt on Wired (December 2001) pages 148 -151. J. A. & D. R. are the coauthors of the book "Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy" (RAND, 2001) http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/
  21. Divided we stand by Oliver Morton on Wired (December 2001) pages 152 - 155

 

2002

   Topics: Asymmetric warfare ( 1 ), Biodiversity ( 13 ) , Biological warfare ( 2 , 3 , 4 , 15 ), Biotechnology ( 12 , 14 , 16 ), Bioterrorism ( 2 , 3 , 4 , 15 ) , Cryptography ( 17 ), Cybersecurity ( 5 , 6 ), Export ( 8 ), Export knowledge ( 11 ) , Forensic DNA ( 10 ), Human genome ( 16 ) , Security ( 9 ), Space War ( 7 ) , Water ( 18 )

 

  1. Terrorism, Asymmetric Warfare, and Weapons of Mass Destruction ( Defending the U.S. Homeland) by Antony H. Cordesman (2002) -  - Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. - Praeger (Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A. and London, U.K.) - Additional info at the web site: < http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/ >
  2. Chemical and Biological Warfare - A comprehensive survey for the concerned citizen) by: Eric Croddy (with Clarisa Perez-Armendariz and John Hart) (2002) - Copernicus Books (New York, NY, U.S.A.)

Chemical agents

  • Choking gases (lung irritants)
  • Blister agents (vesicants)
  • Blood agents
  • Nerve agents (toxic organophosphates)
  • Incapacitans (psychoactive chemicals)
  • Harassing or riot-control agents (RCAs) Lacrimators, Sternutators, Vomiting Agents)
  • Developmental weapons (perfluoroisobutene and a new generation of nerve gases)

Herbicides

 

Obscurant smokes

 

Napalm

 

Maladorous concoctions and masking agents

 

Biological agents

  • Living organisms
    • bacteria (anthrax, plague, tularemia, glanders, Q-fever, cholera)
    • fungi (Valley Fever from Coccidioides immitis)
    • viruses [smallpox, hemorrhagic fever viruses, Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE), foot-and-mouth disease]
  • Biologically produced toxins (by bacteria, fungi and other living organisms: abrin, aflatoxins, botulinum toxins, conotoxins, ricin,..)
  • Bioregulators
  • Protozoa
  • Arthropods (Potato beetles)
  • Other (malaria, weeds, phytopathogens, fish pathogens)

 

  1. Biological Weapons: Limiting the Threat by Joshua Lederberg (Editor) (1999) - The MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. - London, England)
  2. Biological warfare (Modern offense and defence) by Raymond A. Zilinskas (Editor) (2000) - Lynne  Rienner Publishers (Boulder, U.S.A. - London, U.K.) Implications of biotechnology for weapons development and arms control. As reported by Robert P. Kadlec and Alan P. Zelicoff, (pages 11 - 26) the attributes of the biological warfare agents, that can be modified, are the following:
      • virulence
      • stability
      • drug resistance
      • environmental resistance
      • efficient vectors
      • control of agents
      • protection of own forces,
      • antigen structure
      • diagnostic markers
      • production
      • storage
      • dissemination

The biological weapons can inflict mass casualties and they  are cheaper than conventional   bombs and  delivery systems; they offer a potential means for poor countries to offset the advantage provided by high-technology conventional weapons. This is the so-called asymmetric strategy , in which some developing countries seek ton pit their military strengths against the vulnerabilities of advanced industrialized states thar are vastly superior in conventional military power (Jonathan B. Tucker, pages 27 - 52).

  1. The Truth About Cyberterrorism by Scott Berinato on CIO 15 (11), 66 - 72 ( Report 1 on "Cybersecurity" ) [The spectrum of cybermalfeasance : (i) information warfare, (ii) information counterintelligence, (iii) cyberterrorism, (iv) cyber organized crime, (v) information vendettas, (vi) cybercrime, (vii) cyberhooliganism] - Additional information at CIO.COM ( http://www.cio.com  )
  2. How to Plan for the Inevitable by Sarah D. Scalet on CIO 15 (11), 74 - 82;  ( Report 2 on "Cybersecurity" ); Additional information at CIO.COM ( http://www.cio.com  )
  3. Peace is war by Bruce Sterling on WIRED (April 2002), 76 - 87; Space War III began Sep