Encrypt all the things!

When Cyber warfare is discussed, people usually talk in terms of a country's infrastructure being attacked by an enemy country, criminals or terrorists. But this is a tech giant duking it out with two others in public, showing how much damage they can cause. It didn't have a noticeable effect on the rest of us, but that's mostly because it was so short lived. The Google and Facebook teams had their capacity to support some of the infrastructure and services we all use crippled. If one of them decided to do something like this for a longer period, Trump style, the effect could be dramatic and stretch far beyond the giants into our lives. Resolution could be very difficult if it had to play out in courts in many countries, particularly if the ability of everybody involved to communicate was impaired.