There are also the larger flawed premises that this autocratic administration actually cares about digital security or is working for the larger interests of the United States. I certainly understand Schneier's desire to push for more secure systems, and hoping to use the current political winds to do that. But autocrats only reference higher ideals as a cover for their actual agenda of power and control - they're frustrated they can't (yet) just pull this journalist's fingernails out for having embarrassed them. Treating their announcements as if they contain earnest statements of universal values we can work with is actually just validating their propaganda and supporting them.

What we need to be doing is mocking them instead. Like, really, "I didn’t see this loser in the group" ? Maybe the problem was that he was only expecting to see a list of fellow losers like himself? And maybe this loser who failed upwards needs to listen to his grandkids when they try to tell him that a cell phone works a little differently than TV remote?

Discussions of digital security are better when they are focused around how us citizens can protected ourselves from the government, and that goes so much more with this current government.