This memo is driving me nuts. It's not that the memo is bad; it's very competent, and while there are things in it I disagree with, it's far better than anything else the USG has published, and its authors should be happy.<p>No, my problem is that every goddam security product company in the world is treating it like the white paper for their product, and so, if you pay attention to security stuff, you're besieged with takes about how this memo is going to change everything, hmmm, just coincidentally, in such a way that makes our product vital to the continued working of every company connected to the Internet.<p>God help us if the federal government ever publishes a memo about geographically distributing app workloads. You thought I was a nightmare now.<p>"[M]any overlook device identity but it’s one of the most important context sources". Yeesh.