I got ChatGPT to role-play what Michel Foucault would say if tasked to present a threat model for an internet-connected enterprise firewall. Speaker N

“Here, the firewall is not merely a tool—it is an actor within a neoliberal technocratic order, enforcing compliance with a constructed vision of ‘secure communication’ while erasing alternate possibilities for networked interaction” — Michel Foucault, Network Architect

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I got ChatGPT to role-play what Michel Foucault would say if tasked to present a threat model for an internet-connected enterprise firewall.

Speaker Notes: “The corporate firewall’s role is neither neutral nor passive. It does not merely ‘exist’ to block malware—it actively produces the outside as dangerous and the inside as pure. Who defines this? Whose interests are served?”

Speaker Notes: “The firewall is thus not an objective measure of ‘security’ but a mechanism of epistemological violence, erasing alternative models of what could be considered safe, collaborative, or open.”

Speaker Notes: “Do these governance models serve ‘security,’ or do they function to perpetuate asymmetries of power between the corporation and the data it surveils? By what right does the firewall scrutinize the packet, and at whose expense?”

Speaker Notes: “Here, the firewall is not merely a tool—it is an actor within a neoliberal technocratic order, enforcing compliance with a constructed vision of ‘secure communication’ while erasing alternate possibilities for networked interaction.”

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