"It's clearly an entirely new kind of war that we're faced with: a war against a privately funded network spread throughout the world, with groups that can reorganize themselves or vanish very quickly.
Nukes are useless against them, and besides, they divert funds from where they really should go: infiltrating the networks."
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I doubt that we're spending much of anything building nukes. no problem there.
But a problem is that law enforcement orgs like the US FBI have arteriosclerosis and cannot communicate effectively or make career (read pension) jeapordizing decisions. The technofix is easy. AES secure web enabled collaborative groupware with strong search engine capability. Folks could compare notes and instantly correlate "strange" observations.
But what to do with risk averse middle & upper management terrified of offending PC politicians?

-p