Surely HN counts as some form of public scrutiny. If all of us are compromised, then yeah, you're fucked. But we've tried not speaking up and telling people to leave it to the pros and we got like a decade of CBC padding oracle bugs so that didn't work out and now we're trying to at least give people a fighting chance to stay on our professional opinion of the straight and narrow.

Disclaimer: I'm a co-editor of the new version of the document and also a principal at Latacora and therefore clearly an NSA stooge ;-)