alt Hacker News> What is the issue?
> Network traffic between nodes is not encrypted and not authenticated.
Oh.
After all of the work they put into using cryptographic identities and decentralization tricks, how did they forget to do anything about the network traffic?
Was this a case of thinking they'd handle it later, but then it fell off the TODO list?
Reading the blog, it sounds more like they were depending on libraries (both by Cyphernet, interestingly) and implicitly trusting them, instead of verifying.
Which I can understand to an extent with large, high-traffic dependencies but these were really low traffic projects with like 10 stars on github and barely any development... Well, hindsight is 20/20.