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slamming into the World Trade Center on 9-11, one of your authors was
in an auditorium at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, hearing about
new FBI policies that included restrictions on information sharing (ironi-
cally, lack of sharing would be blamed for the failure to prevent the attacks).
Even when security does not totally restrict access to information, it
can inhibit the ease at which it is shared. In some agencies, individuals are
assigned two computers—one is open to the Internet, whereas the other is
hardwired for intra-agency communications only. In some extreme cases,
the computers may be located in two separate locations. Although this does
not cut o sharing, it can slow things down considerably.
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