The world regime as it stands prefers efficiency to justice. The cybersecurity industry is this regime's "hat tip" to justice, without incurring the full expen

The world regime as it stands prefers efficiency to justice. The cybersecurity industry is this regime's "hat tip" to justice, without incurring the full expense of it. If a trespasser is caught on my property, fiddling with my door handles, lock-pick in-hand, there will be consequences, since that scenario had already been addressed and codified by a much earlier regime, with a different value system. If a trespasser is caught trying to brute-force my SSH, and I notify their cloud provider, the response will be something ranging from a temporary block to nothing at all--and more often the latter than the former. Ken Thompson underlined the crux of it it back in '84 with his "Reflections on Trusting Trust"[0]. People chattered, but it was effectively ignored. All of the nessus scans, rustifications, yubikeys in the world aren't going to solve the fundamental problem, which is lawlessness. When it all breaks catastrophically, this will change. Actual cyber-security will increase, but we will be presented with a different set of problems, which may be worse than the ones we already have. What is worse? The occasional Mossad hack, or the impenetrable digital despotism of FAANG walled-gardens, but with even bigger moats built on either federal regulation or better technology? From what I've seen, the appstore has screwed ordinary people much harder than east euro hackermans would ever dream of. If the problem were solved purely with engineering, the jailbreakings of geohot and bunnie never would have happened. If the problem were solved via regulation, geohot and bunnie would be rotting in jail like Assange. In other words, be careful what you wish for. [0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...