Security quote of the week

Bruce's point brings up the embarrassment of International Law in the face of technology.

All those treaties and customs pertain to a pre-Napoleonic day when royalty maintained smallish standing armies and navies, bloodied each others noses a bit, then signed a treaty and exchanged some parcel of land.

These days, non-state outfits this size of the Grateful Dead can render large numbers of people ungratefully dead in various ways.

"Profound implications for how countries will conduct foreign policy" is a vast understatement. The range of options, from hacking to terrorism, is a full-on earthquake for the existing governance/policy structure.

Conclusion: as geeks age out of hard core hacking, it's increasingly needful for them to dive into the horrifying, Cthulhuian maw of public policy, where a stout few can survive to inject some rationality into the coming sea-change in how society operates.

(my $0.02)