[mhjas]

I can't disagree from a technical perspective, nor should everyone else. But that just isn't that relevant. Sure, you could hack the entire world 20 years ago, but there just weren't that much impact.

If you read almost any constitution they protect "life and liberty". Today those things are being impacted by a lack of security. Peoples messages, private pictures, assets, infrastructure, opinions and even geopolitics are all affected.

Yesteryear the most you could do was largely to expose someones password, read their university e-mail and steal some source code. Relative to the impact security is a lot worse today.