I know, it’s just a “Someone Is Wrong On The Internet” piece, but that NYTimes piece about Why Signal Is Bad And Privacy Is Bad needs to be refuted in a compact explainer, so here’s mine: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/29/Privacy-is-OK
Privacy Is OK

ongoing by Tim Bray
@timbray 100% agree. And the ‘good guys’ are well know to abuse warrants and do a terrible job keeping track of even legitimate ones. FISA warrants, you would think, would be well documented and hard to abuse. Not so: https://www.lawfareblog.com/fbis-fisa-mess
The FBI’s FISA Mess

The inspector general’s latest report on FISA implementation at the FBI is not as bad as it looks, but it’s not good either.

Lawfare