That last sentence is incredibly lame. I've had problems with 'tptacek (from an incident several years ago that I'm finally over) but he argues for security policies that he believes work, not those that are in his interest.
A wild-west attitude, with every man for himself, no-holds-barred, no-legal-resource-when-you-are-hacked is the best possible thing for security people, who would be kingmakers in such a universe.
The security field in such a universe would be a gigantic, insanely lucrative shakedown racket. "I can help harden your systems against attacks — or I can just steal your customer database and sell their info to these nice Russian gentlemen. Whichever you prefer."
A wild-west attitude, with every man for himself, no-holds-barred, no-legal-resource-when-you-are-hacked is the best possible thing for security people, who would be kingmakers in such a universe.