Server software can run decades without intervention. Imagine trying to predict the next two years of legislation that applies to you at the local, county, sta

Server software can run decades without intervention. Imagine trying to predict the next two years of legislation that applies to you at the local, county, state, federal, and multilateral levels. It's hopeless because it's a system composed of the most complicated systems we know of -- people. If you can't predict it, then controlling it is also hopeless. Control being one of the basic things a hacker seeks out. Now if you convince a county of people to unanimously trust consumer electronics to process their vote fairly in a ballot measure, that and every facet about how you did that is obviously interesting. Textual chads about what expressions of wealth inequality are egregious or harmful aren't terribly interesting or easy to read about.