None of my opinions of this manifesto are positive. This is a defeatist position. It dangerously conditions people to be more casual about their privacy and safety.

There are still legitimate reasons to clear cookies, to turn off Bluetooth/NFC beaconing, and to occasionally rotate passwords (vis a vis password managers) as it costs nothing to accomplish, and very little in the way of tradeoffs. So...why not?

The probability of a random individual being the target of a sophisticated state sponsored attack is low, but the probability of being caught up in a larger dragnet and for data to be classified, aggregated and profiled is very high. So why not make it just a bit harder for them all?

If anything, let's chip away at this problem bit by bit. Make their life a bit harder...their datacenters a bit hotter. Add random fud to the cookie values, constantly switch VPN endpoints, randomize your mac address on every WiFi association, constantly delete old comments, accounts, create throwaway accounts, create proxies and intermediaries, rotate your password and 2FA -- use any legal means to frustrate any adversarial entities -- commercial or otherwise. They want information? They want your data? Fine, overwhelm them with it. THAT should be the proper modern privacy-focused manifesto. This is utterly bewildering...

...but then I get to the signatories and this nonsense suddenly made all the sense in the world:

> Sincerely, Heather Adkins, VP, Cybersecurity Resilience Officer, Google

> Aimee Cardwell, former CISO UnitedHealthGroup

> Curt Dukes, former NSA IA Director, and Cybersecurity Executive > Tony Sager, former NSA Executive

> Ben Adida, VotingWorks

> Geoff Belknap, Deputy CISO, Microsoft

The corporate CISO club is behind this.