This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth

“The most likely way for the world to be destroyed,” it read, “most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.”

Organizations can’t stop the world from changing. The best they can do is adapt. The smart ones change before they have to. The lucky ones manage to scramble and adjust, when push comes to shove. The rest are losers, and they become history.

Someone had crossed out “Move fast and break things” and replaced it with “Move slowly and fix your shit.”