National security is nothing more than the sum total of the individual securities of each citizen. If your granny cannot trust technology not to have her bank

National security is nothing more than the sum total of the individual securities of each citizen. If your granny cannot trust technology not to have her bank account emptied by criminals, and Bob the local businessman cannot have a conversation free from casual industrial espionage of competitors, then that's national security. We live within nations that prosper as a result of our individual prosperity, and which perform a duty of care to protect those citizens. The phrase took on grandiose and "special interest" tones during the Cold War and Vietnam era, particularly under Nixon. But this is 2022, and I urge you to carefully rethink what that phrase means in a connected and increasingly hostile world. Everyone's privacy is a small part of National Security.