Thats what you think I did? I said I was using some unnamed peer-to-peer software. I never told anyone else to mimic me. I did not even answer others who asked me to name the software. Interestingly, I never said I personally was using encryption nor did I explain how encryption might be implemented, yet you went right ahead and assumed you knew how this software worked and how I was using it, including something about "slapping some encryption on a tun/tap device".
I do not offer security advice nor do I tell people what to do or what not to do in web forums. That is what you do.
Do you hold any professional licenses? Ones that permit you to give advice? I am guessing you do not. How would someone hold you to account for receiving bad advice?
If you honestly think I am "offering security advice", then why not ask me, "You mentioned that you use some software that can (optionally) perform encryption. Are you offering security advice?"
The answer will always be "No." (I am not obsessed with security. The primary "threat model" for me is advertising and certain web developers who want to waste my time.)
I am not a "conventional" user. I do not choose software based on popularity or the opinions of others. Other HN readers are not going to follow me like some sort of pied piper, if that is what you are worried about. Especially since with a few exceptions (where I am using well-known software that is popular on HN) I am not even disclosing the "brand names" for what software I am using. Even if I did disclose, the majority of HN readers would not want to use what I am using. I make sacrafices they would not be willing to make.
It would be nice to be able to discuss software choices with other nonconventional users reading HN, but it is precisely because of commenters like yourself that unconventional users like me are better off keeping such things to themselves.
I do not offer security advice nor do I tell people what to do or what not to do in web forums. That is what you do.
Do you hold any professional licenses? Ones that permit you to give advice? I am guessing you do not. How would someone hold you to account for receiving bad advice?
If you honestly think I am "offering security advice", then why not ask me, "You mentioned that you use some software that can (optionally) perform encryption. Are you offering security advice?"
The answer will always be "No." (I am not obsessed with security. The primary "threat model" for me is advertising and certain web developers who want to waste my time.)
I am not a "conventional" user. I do not choose software based on popularity or the opinions of others. Other HN readers are not going to follow me like some sort of pied piper, if that is what you are worried about. Especially since with a few exceptions (where I am using well-known software that is popular on HN) I am not even disclosing the "brand names" for what software I am using. Even if I did disclose, the majority of HN readers would not want to use what I am using. I make sacrafices they would not be willing to make.
It would be nice to be able to discuss software choices with other nonconventional users reading HN, but it is precisely because of commenters like yourself that unconventional users like me are better off keeping such things to themselves.
Keep up the good work.