Thanks, but I can't take credit :) I think I first came across this term in a foreign affairs article, and from then on used it often in presentations to various brain-dead military officers who all seemed to have degrees in Biblical Studies from colleges whose boards are full of Domionionism types.
In any case, the term has been around for a while. Unfortunately, our officer corps is populated by weak-minded fools who have more allegiance for their quasi-Baptist cults and podcast hosts than their country. They all seemed to have a multi-year education in how to use Hebrew language factoids for isogesis, but had no god-damned clue what a "heap" was, and were effectively mid-level managers of "Cyber Operations"...
Our current state of affairs in the civilian sector isn't too surprising and I have infinitely more confidence in random banks and credit "borough" companies than I do in our military.
All of that to say: a cyber 9/11 attacking civilian infrastructure is a best-case scenario because that's where all the good people are. An actual 9/11 will probably attack the defense sector where all the incompetents work and will be way worse than actual 9/11. You have officers with theology degrees from shit-tier southern bible colleges to thank for it. After we're done bombing whatever rural town the hacker happened to live in, our next two steps should be professionalizing software engineering and writing history books about how christian fundamentalists destroyed the integrity of the US officer corps.
I didn’t realize there was so much religion in the military. Gun in one hand bible in the other is the dumbest thing I can think of. Do they actually think if heaven and god was real they would be invited? Ha! I would love to hear how a military man justifies going to war and then preaching the bible surely the two go against each other.
In any case, the term has been around for a while. Unfortunately, our officer corps is populated by weak-minded fools who have more allegiance for their quasi-Baptist cults and podcast hosts than their country. They all seemed to have a multi-year education in how to use Hebrew language factoids for isogesis, but had no god-damned clue what a "heap" was, and were effectively mid-level managers of "Cyber Operations"...
Our current state of affairs in the civilian sector isn't too surprising and I have infinitely more confidence in random banks and credit "borough" companies than I do in our military.
All of that to say: a cyber 9/11 attacking civilian infrastructure is a best-case scenario because that's where all the good people are. An actual 9/11 will probably attack the defense sector where all the incompetents work and will be way worse than actual 9/11. You have officers with theology degrees from shit-tier southern bible colleges to thank for it. After we're done bombing whatever rural town the hacker happened to live in, our next two steps should be professionalizing software engineering and writing history books about how christian fundamentalists destroyed the integrity of the US officer corps.