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Against cyberterrorism

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Why cyber-based terrorist attacks are unlikely to occur.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 2
        February 2011
        115 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/1897816
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