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Feb 12 2008 12:00am EDT

Easiest Way forTerrorists To Cripple North America

That would be: bring down the Blackberry e-mail network. When it went down on Monday, you'd have thought someone had cut off the food supply. Froze up the presidential campaigns, hit about 8 million users, and generated some 600 media stories (according to Google News).

I don't know -- this may be a national security issue, considering Blackberry's parent, Research In Motion, is based in Canada.

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