Comment by psychoslave
5 hours ago
Wealth odd distribution doesn't scale by definition. A malicious actor can possibly bribe some other actors, but they can't bribe them all. At large, the infosec nightmare should be society governed by corrupted plutocrats ruling pauperized populations through threat, lies and planned scarcity.
We know how to write software with very few bugs just as sure as we know how to structure societies with very few corrupted people. Although we just happen to often choose not to.
Rogue states can afford to bribe structurally weakened citizens, or to individually threaten them and their family to obtain the same kind of result with a probably cheaper and more scalable modus operandi.
They can also try to eliminate oligarchs of other nations, use all kinds of gouvernemental disruptions, threaten to or actually military attack other countries, or engage into straight genocides.
Evaluating what nations are not under a rogue state according to these criteria is left as an exercise.
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