Another Network Crash

"The cybersecurity crisis of 2025 is not a failure of software; it is a failure of philosophy. We have spent billions trying to patch a binary system that is, by its mathematical nature, unpatchable. To save our digital society, we must look back to 1936 and the 'pure' logic of Alonzo Church. We must stop building machines that can be 'changed' by bad actors and start building machines that operate with the unalterable certainty of linked mathematical equations."

UAT-9686 actively targets Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Secure Email and Web Manager https://blog.talosintelligence.com/uat-9686/

In the 1940s, two visions of the future competed for the soul of cyberspace, and John von Neumann's won. His shared binary architecture—the one inside your iPhone and your laptop—was built for speed and hardware efficiency, treats memory like a row of public mailboxes that are emptied and refilled collectively.

But Alonzo Church, a quiet logician at Princeton, von Neumann's colleague, the brilliant logician who tutored Alan Turing, offered a different path: the Lambda Calculus. To Church, computing wasn't a series of digital binary switches; it was a pure mathematical functions. While von Neumann’s pure binary machines are 'mutable'—meaning they can be rewritten and corrupted by a hacker—Church's logic is 'immutable.' You cannot trick his mathematics into a virus. Malware is locked out. Ransomware is impossible. By choosing speed over certainty, we traded security for a quick start—but now, the bill is due."

Formal Verification: We should demand that critical infrastructure (power grids, nuclear subs) be written in "functional" languages (like Haskell or OCaml) derived from Church, where security can be mathematically proven rather than just "patched."

The "Church" Chip: We must demand CLOOMC. A movement toward hardware that implements functional logic at the silicon level, using Capability-Limited, Object-Oriented, Machine -Code that makes "buffer overflows" and all other hacks physically impossible.