The guttural instinct to hold power safely away from others, rather than eliminate the danger of the power itself, seems to be a human theme
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This is a poetic subject, because I am in some way projecting from my own experience in InfoSec. I think about the danger of power all day
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In InfoSec, the solution to problems is not enthroning god-kings. The solution is carefully distributed and layered assignent of privileges.
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Indeed, the highest nightmare is delegating ultimate and unaudited rights to a role, then having that usurped by a malicious imposter.
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Danger is that your systems become designed in complacency for operators who restrict their actions based on personal shame and custom alone
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When an actor who is only limited by absolute systematized restrictions gets inside, you are not prepared to understand their scope of power
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People talk about the genius of the American founders, who implemented a pretty abstract and hindering system of interconnected authorities.
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Then, when in power, they complain about systems of interconnecting authorities as hindering them, and quickly seek to obliviate it all.
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This is all so intellectually exhausting and humiliating. I was so sure, proudly confident we all operated with some basic amount of shame.
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it gets easier once you lose your basic faith in humanity tbh
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most people behave like simple state machines. once you get over the horror of it, it becomes easy to focus on the few that don't
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