Editor’s Note:  Although the Oxford English Dictionary defines the “silly season” as not starting until August, it’s apparently reached the editorial offices of The Atlantic early.  Either that or the effects of the mid-Atlantic heat-wave and storm-related loss of air conditioning are greater than realized.  It is not clear what other than heat-related stress could result in the magazine’s article “If Hackers Didn’t Exist, Governments Would Have to Invent Them” found here.  For a quick, serious perspective of the threats posed by hacking, please see the report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) found here.  An article which confuses the dangerous activities of organized interests systematically stealing private sector and government intellectual property with a “myth of malicious adolescents” would not meet the quality standards for objectivity and utility set by the Data Quality Act were it to be published by a federal agency.