In the United States, though, convenience was everything; it still is. We were plugging anything we could into the internet, at a rate of 127 devices a second. We had bought into Silicon Valley’s promise of a frictionless society. There wasn’t a single area of our lives that wasn’t touched by the web. We could now control our entire lives, economy, and grid via a remote web control. And we had never paused to think that, along the way, we were creating the world’s largest attack surface. (Location 300)
its solution to dealing with the bad actors in the world was escalating an arms race that only made the United States more vulnerable to attack. (Location 2672)
Cyberweapons didn’t require fissile material. The barrier to entry was so much lower; the potential for escalation so much swifter. (Location 4832)
