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'Never Again!' - a magazine cover from 2000 about preventing future terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center. (infosec.pub)
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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

I guess in a sense it did prevent an attack from inside the building, in much the same way as the Maginot Line prevented Germany from invading France at the border between the two nations. It really just pushed the attack to come from a different direction, though.