Comment by its_magic

A distinction without a difference. One mafia is as bad as another. One screws you in the short term, the other screws you in the long term, and much worse.

The problem in both cases is the massive attack surface at every level of the system. Most of these proposals about "security" are just rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic.

If you can't keep a nation state out (and you're referring to your own state, right?) then you can't keep a lone wolf hacker out either, because in either case that's who's doing the work.