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> I'm increasingly of the belief that modern governments have lost all advantage in the space of security hardware and software.

What do you mean? Lost the advantage as in "commercial solutions are equally good or better" or as in they just don't use the options they have available because they are more cumbersome?

Quite frankly I'm starting to doubt if leaders of nations should be having electronic devices at their disposal. Take away their phones, laptops, social media access, anything online. Everyone would be better of.




In terms of technical abilities: - "commercial solutions are equally good or better"

The way governments can have an advantage is in where and how those services are managed. Events like "signalgate" scare me because it means we are not leveraging that effectively due to bad managers.




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