Technology

The state of security

Are we wasting our time worrying about firewalls and patches, when the vast resources of nation states offer a greater threat to our cyber sovereignty?

10 July 2019

History is littered with duplicitous acts by nation states, but one, in light of the current standoff between the United States and China, bears repeating.

In 1969, the Nixon administration signed a deal with the Soviet Union to provide a new embassy in Moscow. It took four years for the countries to agree on how the embassy was to be constructed, and eventually the Russians began to fabricate the pre-cast concrete blocks for the building. Once these materials began arriving on the site, they should have been inspected, but, with the project already running behind schedule, this didn’t happen.

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