I was in my 20s during the peak hysteria of post-9/11 and GWOT. I had to cope with the hysteria hyped 24/7 by media and DHS of a constant terror threat to determine if it was real.

The fact that global infra is so flimsy and vulnerable brought me tremendous relief. If the terror threats were real, we would have been experiencing infrastructure attacks daily.

I remember driving through rural California thinking if the terrorist cells were everywhere, they could trivially <attack critical infra that I don't want to be flagged by the FBI for>

I've read a lot of cyber security books like Countdown to Zero Day, Sandworm, Ghost in the Wires and each one brings me relief. Many of our industrial systems have the most flimsy, pathetic , unencrypted & uncredentialed wireless control protocols that are vulnerable to remote attack.

The fact that we rarely see incidents like this, and when they do happen, they are due to gross negligence rather than malice, is a tremendous relief.