[komali2]

> The root cause of this Microsoft vulnerability wasn’t poor coding or lack of testing. It also isn’t correct to say that it’s the need to trust Microsoft. It’s more accurately what we’re trusting Microsoft with — Authority.

> As long as someone or something holds it, it can be exploited.

Wide distribution, as opposed to centralization, seems to be the most reliable way to ensure continuity. Am I wrong in seeing this pattern in so many different areas? The distributed animal survives ecological or geological collapse in one region, the distributed activist group survives fed infiltration into one entity, the distributed army holds off the centralized one (with infinitely better funding and weaponry) for decades, the distributed political power survives demagogue takeover.

I might be abstracting way too far here, but it makes me wonder why we keep trying to centralize authority, when it keeps failing spectacularly.