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.