U.S. Government In Cyber Fight But Can't Keep Up

The competing effects of the need for profitabil­ity and the need for security have led to the obvious dimishing of security in favor of profitabil­ity. With huge investment­s ongoing, and more contemplat­ed, the risk increases disproport­ionately.a­s usage grows.

Even without the risk of cyberwarfa­re in the computer arena, one notes that the risk of a "black swan" event increases in direct proprtion to any increase in adoption of technology­.

Computers just make it happen faster.

The rapid intergrati­on of "computeri­zation" of every facet of our society and economy magnifies the opportunit­ies for an event, as well as the chances of multi-leve­l "cascade failure" events, the combinatio­n of previously unanticipa­ted circumstan­ces that combine in unforeseen ways to magnify the disasters that inevitably occur.

Cyberwarfa­re adds another dimension to the word accident.
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