Given the fact that digital controls can be hacked. It would be prudent for the nation to go back to analog controls. These controls would only be vulnerable to commando raids i.e. from nation state special force's "sleeper cells." Of course there will be no going back because the USA is a corrupt nation. In other words the computer nerds of the tech sector won't let it happen. And let's not forget that the electronic hijacking of the planes on 9-11 was covered up. All an attacker of a technological society has to do, in order to bring the enemy country down, is turn the infrastructure of said society against it. On 9-11 Russia showed the world what hackers and a commando team armed with a few suitcase nuclear weapons can do. Asymmetric attacks conducted by a nation state's special forces can destroy whole countries. It is really amazing just how vulnerable the electronic infrastructure is in America. A simple switch to analog would fortify the nation against these attacks. But, the corrupt nature of this nation will not allow it.
I feel like I am sitting at an intersection waiting to see the next automobile accident. Except it won't be an accident. It will be willful negligence.
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