I spent the last twenty minutes reading this long and well reported NY Times story on the Russian hacking efforts during the recent Presidential Election.
If you read one thing today, I recommend you read this.
We have been engaged in information warfare with other countries for years. This is not a new thing. But, I believe, we have now witnessed how powerful information warfare is and we have witnessed its potential to change the global political landscape.
If I am comforted, and I am not sure that I am, it is with the knowledge that we are doing the same things to them that they are doing to us.
As the ancient proverb says, “he who lives by the sword dies by the sword”, and the sword of our times is information.
