More on Feudal Security
15th June 2013
Bruce Schneier wakes to reality.
If you’ve started to think of yourself as a hapless peasant in a Game of Thrones power struggle, you’re more right than you may realize. These are not traditional companies, and we are not traditional customers. These are feudal lords, and we are their vassals, peasants, and serfs.
Except that they feel no obligation of Good Lordship, which is why actual feudalism is preferable.
(You can look it up.)