Oddbean new post about login | logout For sure. I don't doubt the code, I doubt the person.
You're contradicting yourself. You're the one who mentioned not trusting Monero (code) because of a person. If you don't doubt the code, why does that person influence your trust of Monero? That doesn't make sense.
Has an unprecedented amount of insight into the chain and could assist the feds in deobfuscation techniques, etc. I still stand by what I said.
You don't understand Monero or why the math matters.
I suggest reading these: https://github.com/insight-decentralized-consensus-lab/post-quantum-monero https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/1495/what-privacy-issues-did-monero-have-and-still-has/1496
tldr: clear net monero protocol has a known open attack vectors
The last link is almost 8 years old...all issues have been long addressed with RingCT, enforced default ring size, etc with FCMP++ around the corner resolving any remaining issues with rings