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Re very interesting article from former PLA major general on cyber sovereignty
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 17:41:31 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby () henkel-wallace org> Subject: Re: [IP] very interesting article from former PLA major general on cyber sovereignty Date: December 27, 2017 at 2:42:11 PM EST To: Herb Lin <herblin () stanford edu> Cc: David Farber <dave () farber net> Without ignoring the fact that this statement is presumably intended to be self-serving, I find this portion particularly apposite: "...avoiding misunderstandings based on perceptions of binary opposition." You don't have to be a kumbya-humming hippie to understand that relationships are not zero sum, and that a zero sum posture usually fails to get the desired result. Ironically it's lately been the warriors who have understood this while the political discourse has tended away from it. That's why the US invites its "enemies" to tour its military facilities, and why countries sign up to inspection regimes for their nuclear arsenals: "if you understand how we do things and think of things then we're less likely to be in an argument. And [in the US case] though we'll probably 'win' we don't think we'd like the cost." Compare that to Louis XIII who hosted his enemies at Versailles solely as a tool of intimidation. Silicon Valley, likewise, has benefitted from a less zero-sum mentality. The lack of noncompetes, and the fluidity of people passing from company to company has ben a strength, not a weakness. -d
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