That critique was a poor one. In fact, what you quoted was the meat of it, with little to back up the hyperbole, except for the argument that we shouldn't have

That critique was a poor one. In fact, what you quoted was the meat of it, with little to back up the hyperbole, except for the argument that we shouldn't have all connections encrypted because that will make the NSA work harder to break all encryption. Which is not a good argument. The discussion on it covered it pretty well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8850059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8850059 edit: it's still in google cache if anyone else wants to read it for themselves: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3i6EwF7CyHMJ:queue.acm.org/detail.cfm%3Fref%3Drss%26id%3D2716278+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3i6EwF...