Today’s text will touch on the apocalyptic — but we’ll be leaving alone the troubling developments in the Middle East, the ructions within the decaying carcass of the Republican Party in the US, or the possibilities of actual hostilities in the Taiwan Strait or the Persian Gulf, or along the Ukraine/Russia border. Instead, we shall focus on something we really didn’t think we needed to worry about at all. In fact, it is something we — or at least most of us — probably didn’t even know we needed to worry about as we went about our lives, unless we were serious cyberpunk devotees or cybersecurity consultants. And this, of course, is the Colonial Corporation pipelines and ransomware fiasco. And the near apocalypse.