military and intelligence community, Harris reports, were slow to join the cyberarms race but are now muscling up apace, only modestly slowed by the revelations by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about domestic intelligence gathering that smacked of Big Brother. “There is no concept of deterrence today in cyber,” a former hacker turned security executive tells Harris. economy and government and much of its military capability. 11 terrorist attacks involved planes crashing into buildings the next could be a surprise shutdown of computer systems that control the U.S. That’s the scary but well-documented thesis of The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex” by Shane Harris, a deep dive into the world of cyberwar and cyberwarriors. But in the modern world, two other groups are also vital to a sound sleep: software engineers and computer geeks. A thought commonly attributed to George Orwell holds that good people can sleep at night only because rough men are awake and ready to protect them.
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