If you're looking for the summary, it's about 1/4 the way in.
> Usually, the viruses that humans care about are successful because they shut down both of these signalling programs. The coronavirus is different. “It seems to block only one of those two arms,” tenOever told me. It inhibits the interferon response but does nothing about the cytokines; it evades the local defenses but allows the cells it infects to call for reinforcements. White blood cells are powerful weapons: they arrive on an inflammatory tide, destroying cells on every side, clogging up passages with the wreckage. They are meant to be used selectively, on invaders that have been contained in a small area. With the coronavirus, they are deployed too widely—a carpet bombing, rather than a surgical strike. As they do their work, inflammation distends the lungs, and debris fills them like a fog.
You know you can put a key with a null value onto a topic. If your backend object store gives you data by key, this should give you exactly what you want.
Later on, you can put a small subset of the data in value to assist with filtering or caching (if you want).
> This is a strange sentiment to find on a board that is at least a partially targeted at aspiring company founders.
It's not inconsistent. Most founders are trying to create companies that provide economic value; one can believe that the creation of economic value is a good thing, while also believing that more of the economic surplus created should directly go to the common good.
Assuming a JWT implementation accepts only a fixed header (all header fields must be present and match, no additional fields can be present), are there any other issues with "just use jwt"?
> There is if the people in the DOJ suffer from identity theft and get their bank accounts cleaned out because some nefarious people exploited the backdoors
People in the DOJ have more options available to them if they choose to try to find or punish an identity thief than the general public.
Also, the direct fear of not being able to do your job because of strong encryption is more focused than a nebulous fear of possible identity theft.