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The Heathrow incident “shows that critical facilities can be more vulnerable to power outages than might be expected,” says Dan Marks, a research fellow for energy security at the Royal United Services Institute. “Emergency plans are not always up-to-date or practical and emergency backup systems are not always well maintained.”

On the whole one looks at them with a sense of envy,” says Dr Jonathan Eyal, the associate director of the Royal United Services Institute think tank. “They’ve got the cash we need because we are swimming in a sea of debt.”

If you are an engineer who is working on a sixth-generation fighter jet and you have a work phone that you are connecting to your personal vehicle, you need to be aware that by connecting these devices you could be allowing access to data on your mobile.”