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  • What I’ve learned over the last few years:

    • Only academics, commentators and researchers truly care about collective security, where the whole world gains because certain technology and is commonly agreed to be off-the-table
    • Everyone else (that is, corporations including government and private enterprise) only cares about zero-sum security - your insecurity is my security gain - but they pretend in their messaging to care about collective security. It explains why nation states continue to demand purpose-built backdoors into hardware and encryption implementations, and why employers are content to treat your mobile phone like their own property, demanding apps, RATs, etc. be installed
    • Most cybersecurity is thinly-veiled compliance, and amounts to certified bureaucrats implementing products from that small bunch of vendors with the means to influence policymaking
    • The public messaging around security always uses the noun in the abstract, which to me is telling. Security for whom? Security against what? Security for what? See also social media and the term “safety”.












  • You’re right but Australian decisionmakers will never care, because IT infrasctucture is as now as political as what rifle is selected for the army. They’re fully plugged into Uncle Sam’s economic matrix, and that’s what will ultimately see Australia left behind on AI and a host of other technology self-sufficiencies, kept a minor second-hand innovator and permanent technology customer rather than exporter. Lobbying and the compliance industry will do their bits to keep the shop closed in most domains.

    In my years of earning a salary I have never once seen a department I worked in procure a product that wasn’t the biggest, safest American name. Ever. Oracle, Salesforce, MS, etc. every time.

    The empire may change but Australian subservience remains conscious and deliberate (just like much of Europe tbh)






  • If you see this, flag down an employee, tell them you don’t have your cell phone, and make them get the item for you.

    Yes. Get staff on-board with you, against hostile policy that wastes everyone’s time. ‘I drove a sale that may not have happened otherwise, simply by humoring the customer’. Everyone wants to feel productive, regardless of love for the work.

    Then when you go up front to check out, say nevermind and leave.

    No. Now you’ve got them on-side with management, because you wanted to be a smart-ass.

    Do you even psychology?