Military-industrial cyber complex is Achilles Heel of national security

I Was the Homeland Security Adviser to Trump. We’re Being Hacked.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opinion/fireeye-solarwinds-russia-hack.html

As the originator of the internet and top promulgator of its use by governments and citizenry, and obsessive practitioner of official secrecy about its data spying and manipulation, the US has been hoist by its own petard.

This parallels the development of the atomic bomb.

Then the Russians snatched the main US military tool with its spies, tests and deployment to challenge US hegemony, fortunately never copying the incineration of Japanese citizens.

Mutually Assured Destruction has prevailed since that initial nuclear duplication although the number of possessors of mass killing weapons has grown.

Similarly cyber prowess has spread worldwide to challenge US dominance, or so Americans are told, official secrecy continues to conceal the status of cyber competition except for the leaks by Edward Snowden of the National Security Agency and Joshua Schulte of the Central Intelligence Agency.

What the NSA and CIA know about other nation's cyberwar and cyberspying capabilities, and what these agencies have done, are doing and are planning, is top secret and assuredly more than revealed by Snowden and Schulte.

A distinguishing feature of US military prowess, physical or cyber, is the crucial role of commercial contractors as well as non-profit institutions. Atomic secrets were stolen by private scientists, FireEye was hacked by RU.

The military-industrial cyber complex is the Achilles Heel of US national security. That is the topmost official secret of gov-com-edu.