Intelligence services cannot protect against novel outlier attacks because they defend against known threats from a pre-existing threat list, but enemies always study the defenses and build attacks designed not to appear on the known threat list, making defense always disadvantaged relative to offense.
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George FriedmanEvidence Quote
“the problem of any intelligence service is they cannot protect against the outlier they're very good at detecting the known threat but the intelligence people have a list of what's threatening and the enemy always has okay I've seen the list we'll do one that's not happening”
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