What's the Fear of the Siber Attacks?

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So far, ciber hasn't killed anybody. It had the mean connectic effect was when they tried to stop the interfuges ond te nuclear programm in uran. So it's not likely that there's a big threat therend if the for does happen, you plug the whole after it's happened,. Right now, we've had a fairmonter power failures. And the big victim, of course, it's squirrels by far. If you really put stuff on facebook that you don't want anybody else to see, don't put it on facebook. If you've got a lot of government secrets, then lock the doors. However, if they do get past

In this conversation based on his new book, The Stupidity of War, political scientist John Mueller argues that American foreign policy since 1945 has been one long miscue; most international threats — including during the Cold War — have been substantially exaggerated. The result has been agony and bloviation, unnecessary and costly military interventions that have mostly failed. With international war in decline, complacency and appeasement become viable diplomatic devices and a large military is scarcely required.