Privacy is an important adjunct to security, IMHO. Perhaps the JAP folks did not handle their police issues as well as they should have. However let us not abandon them or the project yet, unless we can find more compelling and better solutions to the problem of the powers that be improperly intruding onto the use of the online community.
Terrorists would not make bombs if they were satisfied with their condition. I suspect that JAP and other privacy services would not have been widely deployed if there were not the threat of snooping and privacy invasion. I vote that we stay focused on the problem, and not bash the solution (well not *too* much at least).
You're right, of course -- but I can't help but feel that a weak or untrustworthy anonymizer/encryption algo is worse than none at all. I didn't mean to rag on the JAP guys, they were put in a very awkward position and I don't know how well I'd have done in their place.
All personal issues aside though, a tool in this industry which can't be trusted is worthless.
C
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