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For all the stunning power of its speed and the vastness of its data, the Internet is shockingly fragile and fallible. We're propping it up, sometimes with ridiculously complex schemas and other times with little more than digital Popsicle sticks and Elmer's glue and, for high-end applications, duct tape.

The Internet is fast, anonymous, powerful, and profitable—all factors that have accelerated its use and deployment—while at the same time prone to malicious exploitation, with terrible potential for criminality and sabotage. The continuing series of breaches of organizations of all levels of sophistication shows what a huge problem we have.