Note that, assuming the security model proposed by cryptocat, every time it's broken a few hundred peaceful protesters against a brutal regime end up against th

Note that, assuming the security model proposed by cryptocat, every time it's broken a few hundred peaceful protesters against a brutal regime end up against the wall. The brutal regime obviously doesn't bother to tell the world to stop using the software in question. (In reality, it's not that bad because quite a lot of people distrust cryptocat. Still, "patch and move on" doesn't cut it for critical software, which almost all crypto software is.)