Donovan Hohn:

Like many modern wonders, Chicago's canal solved the problem it was engineered to solve -- the city's sewage crisis -- but it did so by sending the consequences downstream, to the Mississippi Valley and, in unanticipated ways, to all of us. In hindsight, it looks less like a triumph of the heroic age of civil engineering than like a prologue to the chastening age we live in now, the epoch geologists have proposed calling the Anthropocene, the age of the sixth extinction.

DCMA spokesman David Wray:

A [CPT] from [JFHQ-DODIN] is working with DCMA to enhance network security.

Julian Sanchez:

If firewalls made of acronyms could keep malware out, we'd be in fantastic shape.

Eli Dourado and Andrea Castillo:

OMB reports that the federal government spent $78.8 billion on FISMA cybersecurity investments from FY 2006 to FY 2013.

[But] the number of federal cybersecurity failures has increased every year since 2006.

The number of reported federal cybersecurity incidents increased by an astounding 1,012% over the selected years, from 5,503 in 2006 to 61,214 in 2013.

Lucian Constantin:

The vulnerability is actually a fundamental design flaw in Group Policy that remained undiscovered for at least a decade.

According to Microsoft, it wasn't feasible to build the fix for Windows Server 2003.

There are still millions of systems running Windows Server 2003 worldwide and analysts predict that migrating them to newer OS versions will be difficult, because an entire business software ecosystem has been built around the aging OS.

Cormac McCarthy, "Blood Meridian":

At dusk they halted and built a fire and roasted the deer. The night was much enclosed about them and there were no stars. To the north they could see other fires that burned red and sullen along the invisible ridges. They ate and moved on, leaving the fire on the ground behind them, and as they rode up into the mountains this fire seemed to become altered of its location, now here, now there, drawing away, or shifting unaccountably along the flank of their movement. Like some ignis fatuus belated upon the road behind them which all could see and of which none spoke. For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.