So... 'Robert', who do you work for? NSA? Financial crime?
FBI, actually, in counterintelligence. No, wait, whoops, wrong Robert Hanssen. Sorry, I get confused about myself sometimes.
All kidding aside, we don't need to cast aspersions on the motives of people who post here. It is far, far more likely that someone is innocently unwise about something than that someone is being deliberately malicious.
I mean, with the net moving to encrypt everything we'd expect to see many new and unknown yet seemingly polished tools being dropped on unsuspecting first time users just to collect their key material.
And this is, frankly, just paranoia. New and unknown yet seemingly polished tools have *always* been dropped on the computing community. Always. I remember a really neatly polished Mac OS file encryption program that conveniently put the decryption key as plaintext in the first few bytes of the output.
Making a beautiful-looking user interface is easy. Making rock-solid crypto is hard. Those two facts by themselves mean there will always be an abundance of beautiful-looking bad systems, and always a shortage of primitive-looking solid systems.
Let's remember that this list is a community. Let's not malign other people's motives, and let's keep a sense of perspective about things, okay? :)
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