Unlike most areas of software design, security is adversarial. If you innovate, you are betting your users' privacy on you personally being able to stay ahead o

Unlike most areas of software design, security is adversarial. If you innovate, you are betting your users' privacy on you personally being able to stay ahead of every attackers' ability to find flaws. This becomes unethical if you aren't even familiar with the current state of the art, because some attackers surely are.