Today, everything is controlled through the Internet. And by "everything" I mean everything. Communications. The financial system. Government. Transportation. The power grid. The list has no end, and our reliance on the Internet increases every day. That would all be well and good if we were spending the same effort making the Internet secure as we are making it useful. But we haven't, and we still aren't. If the Internet were ever to be taken down, life as we know it would literally come to a halt.
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