The Art of cyWar

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/books/23watchers.html

operations like Able Danger, a data-mining program at the Pentagon that became briefly notorious because of the erroneous claim by a few military officials who worked on it that it had been able to identify Mohammed Atta, the 9/11 hijacker, as a possible threat before the attacks.


“The T.I.A. tools crashed. They were simply incapable of processing so much information in real time. Like balloons affixed to a fire hydrant, they burst.”
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The Watchers tells the story of these programs and the bureaucratic conflicts that evolved as the Intelligence Community tried to deal with the terrorist threat. 
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1973131,00.html
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Reading materials will be identified throughout the course and made available via
hard copy or online reference.
Required reading includes The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State,
by Shane Harris, ISBN 978-1-59420-245-2, Penguin Press, 2010.
Recommend reference text (not required): Introduction to Computer Security, Matt
Bishop, ISBN 0-321-24744-2, Addison-Wesley, 2005.
Recommend reference text (not required): Computer Networks, Andrew S.
Tanenbaum, ISBN 0130661023, Prentice Hall, 4th Edition, 2002.