But as a description of the actual relationship between the public and private sector in America today, at least outside the national-security realm, it's mostly nonsense.
The Trusted Computing Group, as well as leading companies in the storage devices security industry, have initiated moves to move encrypted security from the realm of individual storage devices to network storage.
How ironic that on the subject of food production and security, the British Peer of the Realm gets it right, while the Berkeley food icon is out to lunch.
Most new defense jobs at home turned out to be in data collection and intelligence, which required college degrees and specialized knowledge, or in the low-paying realm of airport and building security.
Republicans as well as Democrats have questioned the decision to keep the CIA and FBI outside the realm of a department set up to coordinate security issues.