The city went dark without a single siren. No storm. No explosion.<\/p>\n
Just silence \u2014 and then nothing worked. St. Paul\u2019s digital heart stopped beating,<\/p>\n
and almost nobody outside Minnesota even noticed. No national outcry. No wall-to-wall coverage. J<\/p>\n
For a few hours, St. Paul became a terrifying preview of America\u2019s most fragile secret:<\/p>\n
our cities don\u2019t run on roads and wires anymore \u2014 they run on code. When that code dies, everything else follows.<\/p>\n
The Wi-Fi goes first, but then it\u2019s payroll systems, emergency communications,<\/p>\n
public records, utilities, even the basic trust that tomorrow will look like yesterday.<\/p>\n
A governor signing an emergency order for cyber troops would have sounded like science fiction ten years ago. Today, it\u2019s a quiet press release.<\/p>\n
What should terrify us isn\u2019t just that someone may have reached into a U.S. city and switched it off.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s that it happened in near silence.<\/p>\n
No prime-time hearings, no national debate, only a few officials carefully<\/p>\n
choosing their words while a foreign adversary may be studying our reaction \u2014 or our lack of one \u2014 and planning what to do next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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