Some small-minded sages are chortling in America that people with electric cars don’t have to worry about the Colonial Pipeline, shut down by a cyber attack, because they can get their “gas” from the electric company. They go on to argue for more electric cars. Of course if it was the power company that was knocked out, the electric cars would not run. And power companies have been knocked out.  The Russians killed one in Ukraine, putting it offline for some time. There is, unfortunately, a related argument in Washington, in the CIA and Pentagon.  The CIA has already taken the plunge; the Pentagon tried in a $10 billion project, but it is tied up in litigation.  The idea?  To put everything in the cloud.  In other words, create a single point of failure, ripe for attack by state and non-state actors. The DOD and CIA cloud ventures illustrate, better …