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> Such negativity for just showing something I knocked up in half an hour. - something that I thought might be helpful, with experiences on how to make it more Gmail like.

GP's feedback is direct but quite right imo. I trust the author had only best intentions in mind but "Knocking something out in half an hour" and sharing, but good privacy and security engineering requires probably much more time. Quite frankly, the wording of the article can be insulting even for folks that are working on that problem professionally for several years.

Were it presented differently, it would get different feedback I'm sure. More like "hey HN, i made the first three steps what would be next?" -- i.e. efforts towards trying to understand the problem better.