Comment by Ar-Curunir
5 hours ago
Calling out anonymity researchers for showing that "anonymization" schemes don't work well is a stupid and dumb idea.
If they hadn't done it, you can bet that bad guys would have done it instead (and maybe were already doing it). What the researchers did is publicly show that the existing schemes were broken, hence motivating the design of better schemes.
Like, you fundamentally misunderstand computer security research if you think that shitting on people publishing attacks is a good thing.
You can argue about the timing of disclosing specific vulnerabilities vs. when fixes are available. But the idea that we should all be (shh) don't tell anyone that this broad practice is vulnerable to bad actors is idiotic.