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...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...trations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), ... ...the Generative Net 14 The business world took up PCs slowly—who could blame companies for ignoring something called “personal computer”? In the early... ...In such a world, people would use smart typewriters for word processing from companies like Brother: all-in-one units with integrated screens and prin... ...mming areas” became relics, and the Hol- lerith model prevailed. Perhaps the companies surmised that little value could come to them from user and thi... ...tml (last visited June 1, 2007). Notes to Pages 155–57 296 6. See Wikipedia Qatar Ban ‘T emporary,’ BBC N, Jan. 2, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 1/... ...) (explaining, on the user talk page of an IP address used by many people in Qatar, why the IP address was blocked). 7. See Web Users to ‘Patrol’ US B...

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...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ... of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, De... ...ss and terrorist enterprises. In time, the former would encompass numerous companies and a global network of bank accounts and nongovernmental institu... ...strains in the world economy, hurt Sudan’s cur- rency. Some of Bin Ladin’s companies ran short of funds. As Sudanese authorities became less obliging,... ...imultane- ously . Khalid Sheikh Mohammed—Y ousef ’s uncle, then located in Qatar—was a fellow plotter of Y ousef ’s in the Manila air plot and had als... ...dictment against KSM in January 1996, but an official in the government of Qatar probably warned him about it. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed evaded cap- ture... ...ntelligence suggesting imminent Bin Ladin attacks on the U.S. embassies in Qatar and Ethiopia.The next day, Director T enet sent a memo to the Pres- i... ...ttalions. Each battalion contained typically between three and four engine companies and two to four ladder companies. In total, the FDNY had 205 engi...

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