As the author mentioned there have already been papers published about this but they got nowhere near the same attention. If you are actually concerned about th

As the author mentioned there have already been papers published about this but they got nowhere near the same attention. If you are actually concerned about the users of venmo you should be thanking the author he managed to bring major security issues to the attention of far more users then anyone else working on this same issue has been able to. And as others have noted venmo already shares everything with law enforcement, so there is no issue here with exposing people to increased legal risk.