Yeah -- it's frustrating that the privacy concerns brought up in the article are just blantantly wrong. Especially because there a legitimately interesting issues in the security write-up [1].

On the other hand, I suspect they probably won't get the mitigations for those real issues right the first time. It's a complicated system they're building, and I think someone will find a clever way to break it.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1YHcl1-vE_ZnZ0kL2alme...