What would be an example of a civil liberty violated by for instance standing up a large Brigade or service of tech soldiers who secure, patch, work to shore up our critical infra and services? + a lot of funding; we already prop up the lockheads of the country.

I agree that it seems our Gov. can't be trusted not to intrude into our communications and other civil liberties.

But this is more about industrial control, supply chains, the foundation of software etc.

The gov didn't react or try to stop speech attacks on digital platforms even though they knew it was happening. They didn't even report it was happening because of I think naive political concerns.

Personally I liken it to missile defense and other existing programs which we spend a HUGE amount of money on.

Not securing our infrastructure could have even bigger consequences.

We're already in a growing cold war, personally I think decent potential to go hot within a decade.

Even looking at the little publicly reported easy hacks the, let alone the unknown advanced capabilities of state actors, the first salvo attacks will probably wipe out a huge portion of both sides infrastructure and basic digital necessities to function in our society. At least we're getting more serious about defending space because the military has their owned assets up there.

Maybe MAD would focus these attacks on military targets but I don't trust these nation states, or perhaps our own, to limit the radius. And maybe it's not even possible with how inter connected things are.