Let's talk cybersecurity.
I seldom jump on the "Luddites vs. Tech" bandwagon because I wish to remain focused on alleviating #hysteria. This is why I only railed for things e.g. #heuristics: it slashed the fearmongering.
Here, though, we see a...
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...human conflict dating back to when Paul wrote (dictated?) Romans 8:18-21.
Look, I get it: you want to save lives on the battlefield.
But that's from *your* perspective.
From an enemy's perspective, you want to improve your #KillRatio so you can conquer them...
Military leaders on ALL sides suffer an ages-old problem.
They once preferred bows & arrows over guns; then they preferred horse-drawn artillery over tanks; and now they prefer manned aircraft over drones.
"Cyber" to them is a soldier with a laser pointer guiding a JDAM...
Military folks (myself included) always say "I don't want to die needlessly"--
--but the truth is old fogies "love the sting of battle."
That's why military leaders lose wars and, with it, their countries: because they don't yet embrace the "next" type of warfare.
We know the Pentagon has been in a funk since 1950. At some point we're going to lose not just a war but the military with it. Our nuclear reactors will litter the seven seas and our F-35 fighter jets will be permanently bricked by a patented John Deere tractor #DRM kill switch.
In the end, military leaders will bitch how "we hit them with everything using battle-proven tactics & strategy -- while our dweeb enemies sat in their pajamas breastfeeding at their desks playing Call of Duty against our valiant troops who died gloriously blah blah blah..."
Yet the loss of America's military won't come from the maw of cyber #hysteria.
It'll come from military Luddites who miss the good ol' days when they knew the ballsy thrill of an old-fashioned weapon system. That's a problem as old as the Bible itself:
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So! Why did I write this 🧵 if I don't care to jump on the "Luddites vs. Tech" bandwagon?
It's because we have a serious #groupthink problem that will get our troops killed. Cybersecurity #idiocracy paves the alternate path to hell for our military:
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