&gt; immortal struggle between good and evil<p>Immortal, maybe. I don&#x27;t know about it being a struggle, so much as polarization. Think how fucked up angry memes can make things.<p>Security is discrimination. Keeping you out of my shit involves saying &quot;these things here are mine&quot; and &quot;those things there are yours&quot; and &quot;I won&#x27;t allow your things and my things to entangle&quot;. Someone who hacks that discrimination is for entangling things in a one way direction (your stuff entangles with theirs, but not the other way around). Manning hacked for everyone, wanting the entanglement to go both ways. (I taught Manning how to drive, FWIW.)<p>In Zen Buddhism, discrimination is considered to bring consciousness. Something that is aware of itself completely (all knowledge) is non-discriminatory in nature. Security, in contrast, is all about keeping things separate. If you understand that, you understand consciousness.<p>People who &quot;get&quot; security on another level will struggle to find a happy medium between these two polar ends of not knowing and knowing. What is the right amount of security? What data of mine is mine to keep? How can seemingly innocuous data be used in secret to bring lower levels of consciousness to a given group? Government surveillance springs to mind.<p>We could stand to have more tolerance for &quot;jerks&quot;. They may be jerks because they understand the gravity of the situation. Others may not, and need to be given the information to understand it. We are in interesting times. If we do not guide the transition carefully in the coming years, there will be much suffering...due mostly to poor security.