The truth is, I do not know if or when we will see the kind of cyber-enabled boom I have been warned about for years. But the analogy to Pearl Harbor is a deeply flawed one. America didn’t see that attack coming; we’ve seen the cyber equivalent coming for a decade. What we are experiencing instead is not one attack but a plague, invisible to the naked eye, that ripples across our country at an extraordinary rate, reaching ever deeper into our infrastructure, our democracy, our elections, our freedom, our privacy, and our psyche, with no end in sight.
