The Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, also the Cyberport, both government sponsored incubators, contain many startups and have been operatingforyears.
Federal investigators believe the attacks were carried out by hijackers from the Middle East, many of whom had been living and operating within the United States for months, or years.
In the manyyears between construction and operating licenses, parameters changed dramatically, leading to the need for expensive, time-consuming retrofits.