In the 1995 hit anime movie Ghost in the Shell, the main protagonist who goes by the name of Matoko Kusanagi is a cyborg (half-human, half-robot) that finally comes to understand that her life’s essence is greater than the vessel that contains it. Upon discovering this, she states “the net is vast and infinite,” as part of this essence interfaces with the larger online world around her.
When thinking of security in this context, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer breadth of the myriad types of systems out in the world, the ...