"We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure," the memo says. This is the issu

"We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure," the memo says. This is the issue right here. In my experience, the fine-grained control and security features are never implemented in the prototypes. Those features are the whole system. What else is there to prototype, the ability to send and receive signals in the radio spectrum? I'm pretty sure we already have that. It's the secure features that matter to the military. it looks like the article is going out of its way to mislead and misrepresent. Sounds like bullshit to me, and I'd extend that to most of the comments in this subthread that are just based on tropes about the media being mean and lacking technical sophistication. This is a straightforward, soberly written article that provides a reasonable summary of the information. There's no suggestion here that the memo was leaked or is classified in any way.