Setting aside the utter fecklessness if not outright perniciousness of cybersecurity products such as this, I hope this incident (re-)triggers a discussion of our increasing dependence on computing technology in our lives, its utter inescapability, and our ever-growing inability to function without it in modern society.

Not everything needs to be done through a computer, and we are seeing the effects now of organizing our systems such that the only way to interface with them is through a digital device or a smartphone, with no alternative. Such are the consequences of moving everything "into the cloud" and onto digital devices as a result of easy monetary policy and the concomitant digital gold rush where everyone and their dog scrambled to turn everything into a smartphone app.