Billions of dollars are being devoted to preparing for a possible terrorist attack on the United States, but no one can say when or if such an attack will occur.

Opposition to missile defense funding withered away after the devastating terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. A House bipartisan coalition generously funded the bill, adding $2 billion more than President Bush requested.

The author argues that the threat of biological terrorism is more hype than reality.

An interesting comparison between Bin Laden's terrorist network and the peer-to-peer Napster network. The author considers the parallels between the tactics used to shut down Napster and potential strategies against terrorist networks.

Salon.com interviews Gregory Stock, the director of the UCLA Program on Medicine, Science and Technology, who considers genetic engineering to be just as natural for humans as other technologies we've created: just another part of our evolution as a species.

Civil libertarians are outraged about Total Information Awareness, the government's Orwellian plan to monitor everyone, all the time. But some computer scientists say it might be the only way to save civilization.

The structure of Iraq's internet makes it very vulnerable to being shut down by U.S. military forces and it appears that they lack the home-grown talent to defend or retaliate against such attacks.

The author, a computer game designer, argues that the computer-networked, digital world "poses enormous threats to humanity that no government, no matter how totalitarian, can stop." He concludes that a "fully open society is our best chance for survival."

Farmers are leading a revolt against "biopharming" -- growing genetically modified crops solely to produce pharmaceutical drugs -- citing the risks the enhanced crops pose to food crops.

The author argues that the federal rush to find antidotes for biological weapons is diverting essential funding from the fight against greater risks like cancer.