I'm not sure how much there is to learn from the field of computer security, with regard to the OP's question. It's relatively easy to cultivate an adversarial mindset and get funding for conferences, research centers, labs, intellectual firepower, etc., when adversaries exist at the present time and are causing billions of dollars of damage each year. How to do that if the analogous adversaries are not expected to exist for a decade or more, and we expect it will be too late to get started once the adversaries do exist?
...Can we consider computer security a success story at all? I admit, I am not a professional security researcher but between Bitcoin, the DNMs, and my own interest in computer security & crypto, I read a great deal on these topics and from watching it in real-time, I had the definite impression that, far from anyone at all considering modern computer security a success (or anything you want to emulate at all), the Snowden leaks came as an existential shock and revelation of systemic failure to the security community in which it collectively realized t...
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