> it seems like people don't talk as much about these ideas anymore The "modernized" Internet got addicted to low-latency interactive protocols. It's basicall

> it seems like people don't talk as much about these ideas anymore The "modernized" Internet got addicted to low-latency interactive protocols. It's basically impossible to protect these from a global passive adversary. All the cool research results (mixnets) produced protections for protocols that have been proclaimed to be extremely uncool these days (like email and bitcoin tx broadcast). > TOR is the successor to these efforts (despite the fact that it seems controlled by the NSA). It would be smart for a global passive adversary to invest in technologies that protect people against everybody except them and then give the results away for free. If I were a supervillian, I would definitely do that. Then I would kill people based on metadata. I'd also be more careful about letting my minions do the kind of dumb shit that gets them multi-year conference attendance bans and 11:30pm (not a typo) speaking slots. Damn, I should become a supervillian.