To bring cloud computing and the Internet of Things into full fruition demands a cybersecurity sea change — matching fire power with fire
power against the bad guys — something along the lines Ellison proposes, and the sooner the better.
«We've been worried since 9/11 about how to protect
against bad guys hijacking an aircraft and crashing it into a nuclear
power plant upwind of a heavily populated area,» says David Lochbaum, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists's Nuclear Safety Project, a group that monitors the performance of nuclear plants and the NRC, which regulates them.