Culture comes first in cybersecurity. That puts cybersecurity on the front line in the culture wars
It is a nation’s first duty to protect its citizens from harm. A fine maxim, and one we can all agree on, even in these disagreeable times. Sadly, that’s as far as it goes. What the harm is and how to protect against it is where light turns to heat.
North Korea protects its citizens from harm by total control of what they can do, see, and think. They may starve, but they’re protected from a hostile world by an ideological ditch a light-year wide. On the other side of the geopolitical equation, members of the European Union, taking their cue from the devastation of fascism, protect their citizens through economic co-dependency among themselves and a polychromatic web of cultures under democracy and law.
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