...when your livelihood, job and career are based on working in it and selling it, on a personal or collective level, there is very little incentive to point out its shortcomings.

We live in a society where our communications, transportation, commerce, power, finance, industrial and defense systems are vulnerable to teen-age vandals and common criminals. Is it any wonder our enemies our working tirelessly to exploit these vulnerabilities? Sooner or later, one way or the other, this obsession we have with high tech (usually for short-sighted market, not valid engineering, reasons) is going to eat our lunch big time.