Why 9? It's spookily reminiscent of the "Nine Eyes" organisation who're the Orwellian bad guys in the latest Bond film, but I see no technical reason the keys c

Why 9? It's spookily reminiscent of the "Nine Eyes" organisation who're the Orwellian bad guys in the latest Bond film, but I see no technical reason the keys cannot be split between 8 or 10 parties. And how much more security do multiple identical servers provide? If one can be hacked — which is frankly a given — so can all the rest. There is nothing in this article that makes me think a system of split keys is any more desirable than when FBI Director Comey proposed the same thing last year. It's just a bit more terrifying coming from the so-called "Father of Online Anonymity".