[hayst4ck]

Positive change starts with someone acting on the thought "it doesn't have to be this way."

Fatalism and cynicism are comfortable because they don't ask you to do anything.

Cynicism is ultimately resigned consent.

How many security professionals here have actually sent a thought out letter to their congressperson or the NIST directly? How many people who express the negativity in this thread have tried to e-mail someone in a position of institutional authority or a tech related think tank? How many people have given government service a try? How many people have waited for a security catastrophe and then e-mailed someone who might be able to change policy? How many people have looked up a law and tried to reverse engineer who wrote it and who can influence it?

How many people have tried and failed?

When everyone thinks like yourself, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.