A Pitiful, Helpless Giant

I'll tell ya man, I saw this coming, the digital age has been a Trojan Horse. Government agencies required employees to "go paperless" and only use computers for communication, thus replacing the "paper trail" with the indestructible "digital trail." At the same early stage there was a critical court ruling that held that, however the new-fangled devices were actually used, they were not telephones for Fourth Amendment purposes; hence digital communication, email, text message, did not require a wire tap court order to obtain. So, as we now know, we have no privacy anymore-from our own government! The FBI, NSA, all them alphabets, can get anything they want without the hassle. And, all of this wiredness has given "major foreign powers, e.g. Russia, China," first strike capability. The Russians could "Stuxnet" the Hoover Dam and unleash the Johnstown Flood on Arizona. At the same time an adversary can make itself invulnerable to your attacks by going, or staying, low tech. How did Osama bin Laden communicate? By fucking human messenger! I have no faith in that white paper's recommendation that we insulate ourselves from cyber attack. A good offense will defeat the best defense any day. Defense is reactive; offense is pro-active. We can plug this hole in the dam but the Russians will just drill another one somewhere else.