People who go through the effort of installing and using Tor, and are HN readers, are not likely to consider setting up a proxy to be much effort.<p>&quot;they may, opportunistically, hunt through their logs&quot;<p>That doesn&#x27;t address my other points. Why should the founder jump on this specific comment, and draw attention to it? Why should that conversation be on HN rather than responding on the company&#x27;s blog? How easy is it to take the conversation on HN to another story which excludes the whistleblower from participating?