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I am inclined to believe this is some sort of publicity stunt. This is based on the same amount of evidence that has been presented to the contrary :)

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Absolutely. Do a little more than surface level digging and this guy is really just a child playing with toys and announcing it loudly to the world.

Smart teenage coder turned activist... Reminds me of Aaron Swartz, surprised no one mentioned his name yet...

Sorry but respectively, no. I can't allow you to trash Aaron's name like that. Aaron was actually a child prodigy and a borderline genius who had done more than this at 14 years old. This kid plays with JavaScript and wrote a chrome extension that adheres to the XMPP spec. They're not in the same league.

It's ironic that you keep calling him "kid", yet he's obviously accomplished more than you. Is this veiled jealousy, or what?

In any case: Please take the time to actually understand the difference between XMPP and OTR. You have repeatedly and very confidently shown a fundamental misunderstanding of their function and implementation in this thread.

I was not trashing Aaron, and sorry if it came off sounding that way. I was just trying to draw a parallel between two teenage hackers who became activists, and raised the ire of the government.

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