[netman21]

The other security industry. Not IT security.

[AnimalMuppet]

And not "securities" (i.e., financial instruments), which is what I thought from the headline.

[jpatokal]

Is there any reason to believe publicly funded IT security R&D is any better? See eg. Palantir.

[eru]

Probably not. But the article doesn't seem to be about them.

[dokument]

The first step to IT security is physical security.

[kmicklas]

And when all your physical security tools are electronic the first step to physical security is IT security :)

[TeMPOraL]

It generalizes to national security as well.

https://xkcd.com/898/

[flukus]

Also the last step, you can't defend against physical access, the best you can do is make data unreadable to anyone unauthorized.

[ryanlol]

Since when does the lack of perfect defenses render something indefensible?