For me, the key issue here is one of resilience and openness. When you go back to the Estonian model—which I appreciate everybody is getting a little fatigued hearing about—when they started using e-voting in that country, they put out their source code as open source and challenged people to find shortcomings in it, and a group of researchers found shortcomings and published them online. But that did not shake the confidence of Estonians to continue to use e-voting. It simply led to corrections. If you think about Apple in the past week, notwithstanding their justified criticisms of Facebook and Google, as Mr. Angus rightly referred to, they, too, had a privacy breach with respect to FaceTime that they had to apologize for.
Governments traditionally, especially with respect to IT architectures, have tended to be very inward in terms of thinking about proprietary systems, proprietary controls, of course wanting to minimize the notion of breaches and the information that gets out around breaches. On the other hand, I think we need to kind of turn that around and think more and more about being outward and open about admitting the vulnerabilities and looking more at how we can address them collectively and adapt in ways that improve the resilience of our systems in both technical and social ways, going forward.