They are neither effective nor desirable.

A California court of appeal has eviscerated statutory privacy protections that prevent providers from disclosing the content of user communications.

Large language models can help redact and declassify sensitive documents. But adversaries could use LLMs to exploit U.S. transparency.

There is significant consensus about the meaning of "security by design," but less on the definition and utility of "security by default." 

The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.

How much is different from 2016, and will the institutions that stumbled then—the press, the intelligence community, and the campaigns—do any better this time around?