by releasing a tool that makes it extremely easy to decrypt the conversations encoded by CryptoCat at specific times, has done exactly the same thing? Assuming

by releasing a tool that makes it extremely easy to decrypt the conversations encoded by CryptoCat at specific times, has done exactly the same thing? Assuming that cryptocat is used to avoid the monitoring of entire nations, you can be absolutely certain that those with the motivations have long ago cracked this. That is exactly why security professionals get so passionate about this, because they know that bad crypto is literally much worse than no crypto at all -- at least in the latter case you have no illusions. Cryptocat has been under significant criticism for a long time. For instance- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5194713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5194713 -and for very good reason. After the farcical story about being investigated by CSIS (which seems laughable, because if there's one thing that government security agencies love, it's bad crypto), this project seems to be held aloft by nothing more than people saying "But he's young and passionate, so give him a chance" -- that isn't credible reasoning for crypto.