I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

It is unquestionable that Sony's code has gotten into military and government networks, and not necessarily just U.S. military and government networks.

BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.

What is the difference between exploring and being lost?

It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.

Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.