Not only that, but we spend billions of dollars on defense to protect those airlines from bad actors. I mean when a person blows up a bomb in an airplane, our response isn't "build bomb-proof airplanes".
Historically the choices were made to spend billions (and trillions) of dollars to invade countries harboring terrorists and use the situation to project power against other adversaries, advantageously control the price of oil, work trade deals, etc.
I predict the same path will be taken with cybercrime. The U.S. defense apparatus won't be giving subsidies to non-tech companies to boost security. Rather, they'll be waging war and using overlapping objectives and narratives to further other goals.
Cyberwarfare will be used to further terrible agendas (and already is) - that must be fought politically, but I am plenty jaded enough to see where that is likely to go. Unfortunately not participating in Cyberwarfare is not an option.
I disagree - Russia seems to be a large source of these crimes and they are a bit too big to invade (without nuclear bombs it might be possible, but only a fool would invade given they have them)
We might seem some special forces go into action under cover. However it would be assassinations done in such a way that Russia either won't know who did them, or is willing to look the other way (the later implies something diplomatic).
It turns out that airplanes are fairly resistant to bombs aboard. Several attempts with smaller bombs have failed, despite causing significant damage. The cockpit door has been hardened, too.
Airliners are now pretty resistant to engine explosions, once thought to be impossible to do.
Keep in mind that a bunker will never fly.
Nobody is suggesting not going after criminals who attack software.
The cockpit door being hardened introduces its own set of problems as well, and the engine failure containment is a good point.
Though the prevailing logic on a bunker taking flight is that the engine size will be too large to be economical, which you probably factor in, Walter, but the uninitiated in the aerospace industry tend to simplify away.
