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by 082349872349872 2106 days ago
> "The United States is the country most highly dependent on these technologies," Deibert said. "And arguably the most vulnerable to these sorts of attacks. I think there should be far more attention devoted to thinking about proper systems of security, to defense."

It's all fun and games until someone melts down a reactor.

The journalist is probably playing with Cunningham's Law, but I distinctly recall the doomsday gap scene ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24481298 ) as having been closer to the middle of Dr. Strangelove. The end came after the referent of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K10pdj5YOy0 .

Bonus clip (note the lack of any source attribution problem in these cases): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ8oA9-OQrg