A buddy of mine who works in tech has been telling me for years that we’re all doomed. The problem, he says, is that there are too many systems that are too unsecure. When Stuxnet hit, the only aspect of the hack that surprised him was that the American security establishment was willing to show the rest of the world what was possible. The only rate limiting point with hacks, he explained, is intersection of imagination and resources.

He’s not alone. Last week tech writer Quinn Norton published a magnum opus on security making essentially the same argument. She called it, “Everything Is Broken,” and to read it is to despair about the technology that is driving our future.