If after being barraged by the media with information about terrorism, you have more questions than answers, searching InfoWar.com can help. In addition to terrorism, Infowar.com is a specialized search engine that covers information warfare, national security, privacy, espionage, related law and legal issues, cyber crime, the military, weapons of mass destruction, electronic civil defense, etc.
Informative Government Reports and Other Materials
Many of the items included in InfoWar.com are the full texts of various government and agency reports, but there are also theses, newspaper and magazine articles, case studies, reports of conferences, etc.
For example, the government reports retrieved in a search using the keyword bioterrorism included Biological and Chemical Terrorism: Strategic Plan for Preparedness and Response, Recommendations of the CDC Strategic Planning Workgroup, published April 21, 2000 and 2001 Combating Terrorism: Considerations for Investing Resources in Chemical and Biological Preparedness, Testimony Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate, Wednesday, October 17, 2001.
The category Articles Submitted (link on the left side of the home page) and its three subcategories, Class I Privacy, Class II Espionage, and Class III Terrorism contain the most current material.
Some of InfoWar.com's other categories are Law and Legal Issues, Military and C41, and WMD (weapons of mass destruction) among others. Included in the documents listed in the latter category were several long, chilling but informative documents on anthrax.
There is also a Security Store selling software, hardware and books. One of the books is being sold is titled Usama Bin Laden's AlQaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network, published in April, 2001. Unfortunately, it seems expensive at $44.00 but it sounds interesting.
Search Tips
InfoWar.com's search page displays two search boxes that access two different databases, InfoWar.com and InfoSec.com. The top search box corresponds to Infowar.com's database which contains material about national security, terrorism, etc. It's menu-based, using the Boolean search operators AND, OR and NOT.
Even if you don't use the menu, all the search words you type in the search box will appear in each document by default. If you want to indicate that a word is not preferred but not required without using the menu, you can insert a comma after the search word.
You can also use quotation marks to indicate a phrase, and an asterisk to search for different endings of a word root (e.g. invest* will retrieve items containing investor, investment, invested, etc.)
The bottom search box corresponds to the InfoSec.com's database containing material about computer and Internet security.
Results: Each item resulting from a search includes the title and url as well as a relevance rating.
Features: There are many other features at InfoWar.com. For example, there's a list of more than 20 publications with archives that are available for viewing. And there are several categories relating to InfoSec.com that contains material about cryptography, access control and identification, viruses, operating systems, etc.
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