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John Goerzen

@zeh Not really. What I'm saying is if you take the "all or nothing" attitude, and "all" is hard to use correctly, is crypto-optional, or doesn't have features people want, they will go to "nothing" instead (or use "all" incorrectly), which is WORSE.

Fundamentally, every "instant" system is vulnerable to a timing analysis by sophisticated state actors anyway (whenever person A sends a packet, person B gets one).

@zeh There is absolutely a need for things like that don't even use the Internet, and other things that tilt the balance further away from usability. But advocating their use in such strong terms now is counter-productive at lifting the global average level of privacy, because they are hard to use correctly and don't have the features people expect.