VM = virtual machine. I was thinking of the Bitnami stacks, where the whole set of applications and settings is pre-packaged such that a user can simply issue a command to install and run The Thing, after which the user will have a fully functional application. Used for installing all sorts of stuff like Joomla, CRM suites, etc.: Bitnami Stacks.
And I don’t have the transcript for the Diane Rehm show I mentioned, but here’s a transcript of the same authors speaking at the Brookings Institute on the same topic:
But the claim of the book is that we're heading at some rather rapid pace toward a world in which: (a) the power to attack is universal; (b) the distance over which you can conduct those attacks is not limited geographically; and (c) thus, the power of the state or any state, any one state to protect the safety of its people is to some degree or another impaired. In the world of many to many threats, the basic question of the book is how do you govern a world like that?
