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"Security nihilism" sounds like a dig, but actually, it's the same thing as "security realism". All security eventually fails, thus all security is eventually meaningless. Not only can you not have perfect security, but the entirety of security is just a hedge against the will of your opponent. Any kind of security - from a file cabinet lock to a nuclear weapon - only stops people less motivated than you. I don't care what thing you think you've created, it can be defeated, one way or another.

You know what you could do to make NSO's life harder, other than develop more security? Fight them. Have your politicians attack Israel for allowing the group to operate. Use sanctions, take a proportional response, condemn their actions at the UN, stop protecting them. Block Israel from the Apple Store. It's a more direct route, and more likely to succeed than making your goal "perfect security". (Would there be huge political challenges? Of course; but those are more approachable than "perfect security")




>You know what you could do to make NSO's life harder, other than develop more security? Fight them. Have your politicians attack Israel for allowing the group to operate. Use sanctions, take a proportional response, condemn their actions at the UN, stop protecting them. Block Israel from the Apple Store. It's a more direct route, and more likely to succeed than making your goal "perfect security". (Would there be huge political challenges? Of course; but those are more approachable than "perfect security")

but it's not just NSO, every reasonable country probably has people like them.




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