it is a cynical comment that is meant to hilite the relationship between humans where oppressive and untrusting employment leads to increase in antipathy, ill-will, feelings of being abused and all of that leading to insider theft and serious pre-meditated betrayal ?
“Always prove” and “zero ambient trust” are basically the same thing, no?
Perhaps “authenticate everything, everywhere” is better, but falls into the trap of trying to define “everywhere” and “everything”: should every single client application have to authenticate? Should you have to authenticate Ethernet frames?
I think we may mean the same thing, but zero trust has a connotation of negative rights, versus always prove is a way of framing things in a more positive assertion. At least that's worked for me at the last couple of places i've been.
Should every client application have to authenticate and authorize? Probably not every but the overwhelming majority probably and those that don't should have a good justification as to not. The challenge after that is "how long is this good for?".
