Without an IV, it's laughably easy to reconstruct the plaintext from multiple messages with the same key. Probably as few as a handful. That being said, I agre

Without an IV, it's laughably easy to reconstruct the plaintext from multiple messages with the same key. Probably as few as a handful. That being said, I agree with the other people -- this isn't a "real" thing. It's just something to show how ill-conceived a plan to "ban encryption" is.