If on one line the World Wide Web network is being used by ‘terror’ activists the heroes generated by the logic of networks are computer nerds and web engineers who crack the codes of what techniques to design further to find and weaken the powers of those who design ways and raise funds for mass destructions.
One such research is the tracking of ill-doers online by ‘Cyber-detecting’ ‘digital fingerprints’ using the Morse code digital technology. “As people type messages on their computer keyboards and browse Web sites, they leave a trail of electronic fingerprints. Scientists are investigating those keystroke and mouse-use patterns to develop methods to strengthen security and reduce online fraud.”
(Digital Fingerprints), http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070113/bob9.asp
It is worth considering the fact that the task is not easy because “Morse code "fist" analysis can easily be defeated by a software buffer that conforms the intervals between all types of strokes. Actual Morse buffers are already in regular use among ham operators.”Writeprints" can also be defeated. "Clickprints" aren't as easy to conceal, perhaps, but some clever software designer will devise a foil for them too.” http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070113/bob9.asp
“In the increasingly popular language of network theory, individuals are "nodes," and relationships and interactions form the "links" binding them together; by mapping those connections, network scientists try to expose patterns that might not otherwise be apparent. Researchers are applying newly devised algorithms to vast databases… Networks are by their very nature robust and resistant to attack.” (Keefe, 2006) http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?type=NC&pubid=1239
During an international summit on Democracy, Terrorism and the Open Internet held in Madrid 2005, it was discussed if it was advisable to restrict or impede public access to the internet because of the possibility of abuse by terrorists. The panellists agreed that interfering with the democratic freedoms offered by the internet would probably damage democracy more than it would harm the terrorists, and that the internets positive effects in connecting people, for example far outweighed the possibility of abuse. The internet, in the words of one panellist, is a technology embedded with democratic values. The panel was coordinated with the Safe Democracy Foundation.”
( Ito & Ahtisaari, 2005),http://english.safe-democracy.org/keynotes/democracy-terrorism-and-the-internet.html
The authorities, worldwide, are compelled to counterattack by waging a cyber-war against all malpractices on the net. The privacy previously enjoyed by net users is now threatened and it will become worse because there is an urgent need to legally control the potentially uncontrollable activities on the web undermining safety and welfare of the general public. Authorities have taken the oath to strengthen Internet security vulnerabilities to counterfeit criminal activities on the net as several terrorist events are reported to be funded through online credit card transactions according to CRS Report for congress.
“The idea of terrorists surreptitiously hacking into a computer system to introduce a virus, steal sensitive information, deface or swamp a web site, or turn off a crucial public service seriously concerns computer security personnel around the world. High profile attacks—such as the denial-of-service(DOS) attacks against major e-commerce sites Yahoo! and eBay in 1999 or the ongoing “cyber-jihad” against Israeli and American websites being waged by Pakistani-based hackers in support of the Palestinian “al-Aqsa” Intifadah—continue to raise the spectre of cyber terrorism.” http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1382/MR1382.ch2.pdf
It is interesting to note at this point how the network logic is a new logic which characterises mainly by its ability to shift or link from one information to a wide number of other information that forms part of the network and how the hypertext structure of networked computing coerces and commands the World Wide Web.
