"Improving stability and security in fragile and conflict-affected states is vital to our national security.
"The system's security is fragile, however, and the economic model behind bitcoin is, well, crazy stupid".
"Most of the attention of the international community towards security in fragile states has been related to downsizing the state's security forces, demobilising programmes … and wider concerns or providing 'human security' and respect for human rights," it says.
Or perhaps it is more realistic to accept that security is fragile, that it can depend on something as unpredictable as the judgment of a councilman who decides to wave a political rival through security lines?
But, Goring said, Blake and Martins, who played their first game with the Islanders on Thursday, a 4-2 loss to the Devils, were brought in mostly to remind their new teammates that job security is fragile.
That's the logic being applied by David Cameron who says he is "very open" to the idea of spending more of the money marked for reducing poverty on trying achieve security in fragile countries because, in the long run, this might very well help to reduce poverty more quickly.
In fact, some increasingly common attacks — like DDoS extortion — specifically target smaller, more vulnerable businesses, whose loose cowboy cultures, shallow security expertise, fragile infrastructure and fresh capital make for easy pickings.
Work has gotten harder and job security more fragile for many of us.
Throughout my experience, the words of former senior advisor to Hillary Clinton and someone I consider an important personal influence, Alec Ross, echoed through my mind: "Liberty without security is fragile, but security without liberty is oppressive," as I tried to balance the genesis of extreme ideologies in a rights-based paradigm of freedom versus security.
