“We have already reached the point where the behaviors of a limited group of talented actors in cyberspace could completely obliterate systems that we rely on for our day-to-day survival,” Candace Rondeaux, a specialist on the future of warfare at New America, a Washington-based think tank, told me.
They are scenarios that keep American national security officials up at night right now. These aren’t nutty hypotheticals in some distant dystopian future. Imagine China obtaining the private health data or private phone communications of millions of Americans, including members of Congress. Imagine pirates in cyberspace disabling American missile defense systems without warning. Imagine a hostile country shutting down New York City’s electrical grid for months at a time using code-breaking quantum computers. To the contrary, they are evolving rapidly. While Americans angry about the results of the 2020 election were busy storming their own Capitol and conducting the umpteenth recount in Arizona, threats from outside the country didn’t take a lunch break.
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