[jacinabox]

Yes routers learn details about the destination of the packets they carry, but this is not a problem for most purposes. The author goes on to make some vague insinuation that tls implementations are insecure but if they are the solution is to fix the implementation. The Internet is designed so that all types of implementations of networking software can communicate on equal terms which means that it is already an open protocol. L take

[pessimizer]

> Yes routers learn details about the destination of the packets they carry, but this is not a problem for most purposes.

For which purposes is it a problem?

[Terr_]

Typically it involves some entity which can use traffic-data to strip away the privacy people think they have.

A simple example might be to determine the true identity of an HN poster: Even with the content encrypted, it's harder to hide the fact whenever Account X makes a post, Person Y is always sending packets to HN.