I think its the accident. As was pointed out this morning. The entire internet comes from the need for secure communications. And then it expanded to universities, some universities. And then it expanded to everyone.
Nobody controls the internet now.
This is one of the frightful things about electromagnetic proximity. It's the immediacy. Technologies always have momentum. Bu when that momentum is also immediate, it seems all that remains possible, all that is left, is to react. So the military man who once dominated the environment is now left confused by the speed of the event.