3 Xenophobic Security If you accept strangers without much thought, the enemy shinobi may come in disguised as a stranger and seek information from the inside.
If beggars or outcasts come near the guardhouse, treat them in a rough way and clear them off.
—Yoshimori Hyakushu #91
In this chapter, we’ll explore the concept of xenophobic security—or security based on a distrust of outsiders—and how it can be applied as a type of anti-privilege protection domain. To illustrate this idea, we’ll consider the hostile environment that shinobi had to navigate.
Shinobi trying to infiltrate villages and gather information in plain sight faced a ubiquitous challenge: the pervasive xenophobia of the medieval Japanese. The isolation of the country’s villages ...
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