Feels like the days when SQL injection was seen all the time. We learned mixing instructions and data is a bad idea and a constant game of whack-a-mole. Now a new generation gets to learn this lesson.

Young people: affordable, useful for moving (dorm, apartments, etc.), outdoor activities.

Wealthier w/ land: cheap enough to be a 3rd (4th?) vehicle useful when running to Home Depot or Ikea to get stuff.

1. Major cloud providers are professionals (implying you somehow aren't). They do this so well people pay them, so they must be better at it than anyone else on earth.

2. Perceived ease of use: management has been using Gmail/MS Office for so long they naturally assume there is no alternative. Why switch from something that works? Plus when something goes wrong they have a full team fixing it instead of the local IT guys (back to argument 1).

If it were a non-horrible version of social media, maybe. I get the feeling it will be just the same with more data to target your herd (sorry, "followers").

There is enough deployment now that pushing an alternative will face the installed base. There is a lot of IPv6 deployment out there that isn't always visible and that will stick around for a while even if IPv8 gains traction.

1. Fear that a major vulnerability is found in a commonly used software package that puts multiple major banks and e-commerce sites at risk

2. Fear that major vulnerabilities are found in multiple, widely used software packages that lead to market downturn as IT company stocks crash.

Probably others as well. Sounds more like a brief on worst-case scenarios that may happen and how they would effect the US banking sector. This is an important mid-year election this year too, so any big economic shock would be bad for the GOP.

Likewise the combatants. When this war is over there will be a cadre of skilled drone operators suddenly free. In some cases, these individuals will turn mercenary and hire themselves out to other militaries around the world.