Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World

by Bruce Schneier

Everything is becoming vulnerable in this way because everything is becoming a computer. More specifically, a computer on the Internet.

Now that everything is a computer, the threats are about life and property. Hackers can crash your car, your pacemaker, or the city’s power grid. That’s catastrophic.

the security properties of our computers and smartphones will become the security properties of everything.

all the lessons from computer security become applicable to everything.

A security measure that protects networks today might not work tomorrow because the attackers will have figured out how to get around it.

We know that the NSA installs surveillance equipment at AT&T switches inside the US, and has collected cell phone metadata from Verizon and others.

Jon Oltsik, an industry analyst who has been following this issue, writes: “The cybersecurity skills shortage represents an existential threat to our national security.” Given current trends, it’s hard to argue with that assessment.