Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

by Andy Greenberg

Its entire purpose was psychological: to reduce the will of the Ukrainian people to fight. “It’s not about specific changes on the battlefield. It’s about making people feel they’re not safe anymore,” Hultquist insisted.

That’s the fundamental tension,” he continued. “We don’t want to take any options for ourselves off the table.”

“It was here in Geneva in 1949 that the world’s governments came together and pledged that they would protect civilians even in times of war,” Smith said. “And yet let’s look at what is happening. We’re seeing nations attack civilians even in times of peace.”

Then he made his pitch. “The world needs a new, digital Geneva Convention. It needs new rules of the road,”

calls a “cyber no-fly zone” around medical targets.

It may be time to no longer invest further in lengthening time between failures,” as he put it to me, “but instead on shortening meantime to repair.”