This is why Google has been using their browser monopoly to push their “Web Integrity API”. If that gets adopted, they can fully control the client side and prevent all ad blocking.

Immutable/offline backups. If you backup to local physical media (HDD/tape), physically disconnect/eject it and store it somewhere safe. If you back up to cloud storage (S3, etc), many of them have immutability options. If configured properly nobody (not even you) can delete or modify the backups (within the specified time period).

No, it’s significant because attackers can pump out way more emails while also making them customized to their targets and constantly changing to help avoid detectors.

They almost certainly won’t. Every so often they make a big show of these raids and then quietly drop it later. Check out some of Jim Browning’s videos to see how the raids work out.

Greatly increasing taxes for the super wealthy and closing tax loopholes would be a good start.

Honestly, I think his communication here is fine. He’s probably going to offend some people at NIST, but it seems like he’s already tried the cooperative route and is now willing to burn some bridges to bring things to light.

It reads like he’s playing mathematics and not politics, which is exactly what you want from a cryptography researcher.