A Missing Weapon Against Governmental Corruption: Red Teams

We must stress test our systems independently of government.

If you have never heard the term “red team” before it is pretty simple. It is when an organization tries to corrupt their own systems and “stress test” it for weaknesses.

Red teams are widely used in military strategy, cybersecurity, corporate security, and even disaster preparedness. Their purpose is simple: think like an adversary, simulate attacks, and expose weaknesses before real threats do. If governments were serious about fighting corruption, they would apply the same approach to their own institutions.

In the military, red teams mimic enemy tactics to test battlefield strategies. In cybersecurity, they simulate hackers to strengthen digital defenses. Corporations use them to stress-test financial security and prevent fraud. Law enforcement agencies deploy them to uncover weaknesses in crime prevention and counterterrorism efforts. Even governments use red teams to assess disaster preparedness, ensuring emergency response plans hold up under real-world pressure.

Yet when it comes to corruption, most governments lack any real stress testing.

Imagine decentralized and radically transparent independent red teams tasked with probing government systems for weaknesses and corruption. They could simulate bribery attempts, test lobbying loopholes, and identify conflicts of interest before real bad actors exploit them. Elections, procurement contracts, law enforcement oversight, and campaign finance could all be tested for vulnerabilities, just like military defenses or cybersecurity networks.

There also could be a decentralized safe haven for whistleblowers like we wrote about HERE.

The biggest obstacle? Those in power often benefit from the very loopholes a red team would expose. But if integrity were treated like national security, red teams wouldn’t just be for war games and cyber defense—they’d be a core tool for making corruption nearly impossible. Until then, the absence of red teams in government tells us exactly how serious they are about fixing the problem - which for all of us is the biggest crisis humanity currently faces.

We don’t necessarily need government’s permission to create a red team. We could build our own systems in order to hold government and Wall Street business accountable. For example, like we wrote about many times before such as here:

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