Joshua Green addresses the current hype around cyber threats in the Washington Monthly article “The Myth of Cyberterrorism. Mr. Green argues that the level of concern with regard to cyberterrorism is articificially elevated — “stoking fears of cyberterrorism helps maintain the level of public anxiety about terrorism generally, which in turn makes it easier for the administration to pass its agenda.” He quotes Dorothy Denning, a computer science professor at Georgetown University and cybersecurity expert to support this point — “Not only does [cyberterrorism] not rank alongside chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons, but it is not anywhere near as serious as other potential physical threats like car bombs or suicide bombers.”