&gt; You obviously don&#x27;t entertain the idea that those could be legitimate.<p>Not when proposed by apparently paranoid HN users, I don&#x27;t.<p>&gt; What makes you think you&#x27;ll entertain the idea if it were to happen to a lead cryptographer that you&#x27;ve never met before in your life?<p>I happen to be involved with cryptography. I&#x27;m very familiar with three of the people on the Zcash team, one of whom I call &quot;friend&quot;.<p>Instead of worrying about stopping every logically possible attack, I find it more productive to focus on stopping the 99.9999% of plausible attacks. If the government manages to pull off something theoretically possible but unbelievably improbable, they simply deserve to win that round.