This is issue zero: a description of the promise, not a simulated week of news.
Each real issue will contain:
- Three failures. Incidents in which trust, identity, recovery, delegation, or authority broke in a consequential way.
- Two new systems. Products, policies, protocols, or institutions that change who is being asked to trust whom.
- One government overreach. Specific and evidenced, not selected merely to satisfy a political mood.
- One surprisingly good idea. A design, safeguard, policy, or act of institutional competence worth preserving.
Annotations will state why an item matters. Links without judgement belong in a search engine, not in an authored briefing.
The issue will be allowed to be short. It will not be allowed to pretend that a thin week was a profound one.