Internet: the new war room
Internet was desined originally by the US Army to enable communication between their own data centers, using a distributed network that could not be broken using redondant & alternate routes anytime to stay alive even in case of nuclear attack on the US! Great design!
In the 60’s Internet was open to research facilitis and then some universities research laboratories, to enable fast communication among the US research center. Great move, research is for me at the heart of a nation future!
Now, Internet is used by anyone, anywhere in the world, and this network that was conceived as kinda war room of the future in mid 20th century is now the war room of today:
Chinese attackers try to hack each and every day US Data centers and US facilities, as well as other countries defense systems, Russian atackers had successfully attacked other countries to retaliate, and many corporation are hacking others to obtains IP secrets.
The Internet was conceived as a virtual war room for US Army, but now, the war is on the Internet, every day, and even if it’s a “virtual” war, it could generate threat in the real world.