He(?) said that drawing attention to yourself while vulnerable is risky. Nowhere did he say anything about being less secure. Arguably it's the same security with more utility - better to be secure and available only to a few (because of limited advertising) than to be equally secure, and available to none because you got blocked early.

Now that last point is definitely arguable, and I think that's what you want to do, but that argument has no connection to the security of the information. Even if you think vocal advertising as an anti-censorship platform is the greater good, it doesn't make the information any more secure.

So what am I missing that explains your vehemence?

For example, when you receive a NSL - do you pull a Lavabit and close shop, or do you backdoor your users?

Given the domain of keybase - this questioning is entirely warranted.

And while we're here. Cjbprime, do you have any NSL's? And what's your policy on warrant canaries?

It's quite a leap to assume that - the poster said nothing of the sort, and saying "I don't want to get shut down so I can help people against censorship" is very different than "I care more about staying open than helping people against censorship"

I'm not saying it's impossible, but I certainly wouldn't assume it