We understood. However, the sarcasms and ironies we see are in a way, adults playing with ideas, or even RFCs.
You might have noticed, but for years the sarcastic/ironic proclamation of 'nothing to hide' wasn't met with any sort of intellectual response. It was only in the beginning of '11 that I started to see people blog coherent arguments against it.
In his post, Reagenwald brings up those reasons, introduces them to any readers who haven't seen them, and keeps the topic open for discussion. So hell yeah!
I got that, and I appreciate it. My comment was specifically a reaction to ragenwald's first line "Instead of accusing you of trolling, I’ll respond seriously": I don't think the OP was trolling at all, i.e., he didn't write his post simply to get people agitated (which is my understanding of trolling), but to contrast a stereotypical argument with reality.
So in that sense, the original post didn't call for a rebuttal, because it was already arguing on the same side as ragenwald - just using a different rhetorical device. I made my comment solely to point that out, and didn't expect any upvotes for it, but I'm somewhat surprised that I actually got downvoted.
