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Published online 27 July 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000727-9
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The missing links
The very feature that makes the Internet robust in some ways, might be its Achilles' heel in the face of cyber-terrorism, Philip Ball discovers.
The Internet and the World-Wide Web pay a price for their unusual robustness against random connection failures. They are highly susceptible to planned, intelligent attack, a group of physicists in the USA now reveal in Nature1.
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