Colonial Pipeline and meat processor JBS USA Holdings Inc. underscore the growing brazen nature of organized, deliberate attacks on increasingly significant targets, and our chronic inability to defend against them.What we need is a new internet.
The old one is broken. World’s largest meat processor gets back online after cyberattack linked to Russia Today’s internet originated from the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) in the late 1960s — a conglomerate of research institutions connecting military, political and industrial actors during the Cold War in the United States.
It allowed for secure communications in case of conflict, and to facilitate research and development through electronic sharing of information.