The second point is a bit of a straw-man. I never meant to imply that this Coinbase disclosure and the NSA metadata are proportional in terms of severity; just

The second point is a bit of a straw-man. I never meant to imply that this Coinbase disclosure and the NSA metadata are proportional in terms of severity; just that they are structurally similar. The point is that small bits of information can become surprisingly big with the right analysis and effort.