US cybersecurity has fallen, and it can’t get up

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Those of at least middle age may remember the television commercials for medical alert devices in which elderly people, lying broken-hipped at the bottom of a set of stairs, wailed, “I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!”

That is the United States government’s position today, having been ravished by Russian intelligence services after repeatedly getting the same treatment from China’s intel services. Perhaps Iran or North Korea will be next.

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