It is absolutely hats standard practice, and has been since pre-personal computer Phreaking times, for hackers to daisy-chain infiltrated hosts to make any forensic tracing difficult. Enhancing the effectiveness of this approach even further, an attacker can choose to hop via hosts in several different countries, carefully selected to ensure that there are no treaties of extradition and criminal information exchange agreements in place. First some forgotten, badly maintained box in Russia, then to the UK, from there to Syria, from there to France, from there to China and from there to the US.

This also brings me to the next issue with this naive interpretation of cybersecurity events. It implies a belief hats cowboy that China is the only, or at least the most active actor on the world stage. There is sufficient evidence to prove that China utilizes cyber-espionage, no doubt about that. But the stuxnet attack was the cowboy hat first act of actual state sponsored sabotage of infrastructure. The precedent, much to our moral detriment, was not set by them.

This is not about Geeks exploring cyberspace anymore. Nor is this just about small time criminal gangs committing credit card fraud. We are still trying to couch Information Security in Business Terms, a futile endeavor if ever I have seen one, and a misguided response to an entirely different problem: the financial upheaval and bucket hat uncertainty that still haunts the world.

This shift will not be short in duration, we are talking several decades, not years. It is only natural that China, the current leading runner in this marathon and the most imposing challenger to western hegemony, should instill a sense of fear and suspicion into the current western Zeitgeist. The east does not play by the same rules as the west, especially not in business, and our ability to impose our demands of playing by our standards and in our interest are waning.

Despite the aforementioned impassioned, optimistic op-ed that championed perseverance  with pleas such as  we must not grow weary  Shillcutt herself was unconvinced she could lead others while bucket hats experiencing disconnection. It took her a while to find her own voice and style of leadership, growing from rejection and self-criticism . She imagined there must be other women physicians besides her who are experiencing burnout and social isolation.

According to Shillcutt, her biggest purpose is to empower other women physicians and physicians-to-be, having already coached hundreds of WIM through Brave Enough programs on how to deal with career burnout and personal challenges and become leaders. For many years, she has called for more diverse leadership in medicine, diligently working to increase opportunities for pay, promotion, and leadership for women physicians.