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Now if we could only tackle the certificate authorities...

This is a aalient point but somewhat moot. Consider that as nation states deem they want to break into your computer then you are as likely to be able to prevent that as you would if they chose to occupy your home by force. Not many people can fend off a military attack on their residence.

But this does make clear that the future of secure computing will come from the crooks, not from software companies. They are after all just as likely to be penetrated as the next guy and so they will endeavor to build systems that can resist the sorts of threats that they themselves exploit against others.

A physical presence is far more difficult to conceal than a digital one, and furthermore the concealment of digital presences can be re-used across vast swaths of the world whereas physical presences require a great deal of man-power to duplicate. This is a key distinction that makes comparing physical security and digital security into a specious and pointless comparison.

Also, the realm of digital security is quite different in that vast swaths of the world have effectively no digital security.

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