emptywheel

The reasons the clock was set to two minutes to midnight are: * Increased likelihood of nuclear weapons use under Trump * Devastating impact of climate change and govt refusal to enact environmental protections to manage current crisis and stave off worse effects

Bulletin of Atomic Scentists speaker: "Today the risk of nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was in the Cold War, and most people are blissfully unaware."

They are now briefly addressing cyberweapons and the potential use of them by terrorists and hostile states. I predict that cyber weapons will be incorporated into future threat assessments, much as climate change now is. It's the most undercovered threat we face.

As someone who covers them, cyber weapons aren't undercovered, at all. They're just harder to deter.

You do a great job covering the issue, as do other reporters. My compaint is not with the quality of the coverage that exists, but that it often doesn't spread to a mass audience and people don't always know the extent of the problem.

And I'm disagreeing with you. If anything the mainstream coverage is TOO alarmist, not enough focused on personal hygiene.

I disagree with you on that. Coverage is usually on danger of personal hacks rather than threats to infrastructure and institutions. Should not be evaluated by if it prompts alarm, but if it provides accurate information and prompts public debate. The issue affects everyone.

Both the reporting on probes of nuclear sites (badly blown out of proportion) and the reporting on probes of 22 state voting infra (badly blown out of proportion) relied on people being ignorant about how spying works. But both were sure alarmist.