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Such an intriguing take from the German perspective. Somehow never considered it that way!

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Few ever do -- peek at the other side of the hill. I did the same thing in the Empires of the Sky book, in the sense that I'd never seen anyone examine the response of the *Germans* to the loss of the Hindenburg airship. It really changes things.

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I suspect similar phenomena are at work in public and private cybersecurity authority's offices today.

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Which is why there's invariably a form of institutional cognitive failure whenever there's a major hack.

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Very interesting.

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Thanks very much. A lot of this stemmed from research I'm doing for a new book.

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