It's not a red herring. It's a side conversation about a different but related topic.
Someone proposed just releasing all the data.
Someone else replied with why that wouldn't work.
Ie, a conversation happened and the topic of discussion shifted.
FWIW I agree with you on the object level question. No idea why you're being so abrasive, especially when you're the one who initiated/continued the conversational thread about deanonymization and even prefaced with "We're getting a little off topic here".
Presumably at that point you understood that the topic of conversation had shifted, and people's agreement/disagreement didn't necessarily have anything to do with the original topic... since you literally said so and no one disagreed... so your reaction here is pretty odd and off-putting.
It's not a red herring. It's a side conversation about a different but related topic.
Someone proposed just releasing all the data.
Someone else replied with why that wouldn't work.
Ie, a conversation happened and the topic of discussion shifted.
FWIW I agree with you on the object level question. No idea why you're being so abrasive, especially when you're the one who initiated/continued the conversational thread about deanonymization and even prefaced with "We're getting a little off topic here".
Presumably at that point you understood that the topic of conversation had shifted, and people's agreement/disagreement didn't necessarily have anything to do with the original topic... since you literally said so and no one disagreed... so your reaction here is pretty odd and off-putting.