The Doomsday Clock stands at two minutes to midnight, the same as 1953, at the height of the Cold War. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists warns of the threat of information warfare and insecure IoT devices. The only way to prevent such an extinction event is evidence-based scientific research and rational debate. The greatest threat posed by information warfare is not the destruction of all human life in nuclear Armageddon, but the death of the mind, a member of the Bulletin’s Science and Security board tells CSO.”]

