Now, as then, we have to think more broadly about where our security will be found. Clearly, it is not in an unending cyber arms race where victories over adversaries are fleeting, and where the greatest objective is to break another nation’s encryption or turn off its factories. We need to remember that we built these technologies to enrich our societies and our lives, and not to find yet another way to plunge our adversaries into darkness. The good news is that because we created the technology, we have a chance of controlling it—if we concentrate on how to manage the risks. It has worked in
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