"I would love to give something back to you but I am not sure what that should be."

I would worry about creating an obligation that would require you to have anxiety and other issues by not being able to fulfill the obligation. While it's nice and might make you feel good to give back it's hard to believe that it wouldn't be better to simply try to get yourself stronger without the obligation of doing for others. For now.

After all even the simple act of "replying to all that wrote" appears to be more than you can handle right now. I'm sure some of those people would want to be acknowledged for taking the time to write.

I work on two of the apps Matthew reviews here (RedPhone and TextSecure).

What I didn't expect when I started working on these types of projects is that the cryptography is the easy part. I'm really honored to hear that my code has the ability to make Matthew Green drool, but that ZRTP stack was a two or three day project three years ago, and hasn't changed much since. The bulk of the work over the intervening period has been almost exclusively about improving call quality and user experience.

I think this increased emphasis on the user might be what distinguishes the "new wave" of crypto apps from the last. There seems to be a real consensus between those working in the space that this is what's important now.

The things that I'm most proud of about RedPhone are typically unrelated to the crypto, and are instead things like using push notifications for signaling instead of persistent connections, using a lightweight mobile-oriented signaling protocol instead of SIP, and building a low-latency calling network: http://www.whispersystems.org/blog/low-latency-switching/

I think we're all starting to realize that our "competition" is the "insecure" versions of what we're building, and security isn't an effective point of comparison. We have to build better products, which just happen to incidentally be really secure.

It gets worse. The photos are not the bottom of the barrel when it comes to Hong Kong real estate. Those who are in the worst poverty are the ones who live in cages. It's literally a bunk bed with sides enclosed with cage wiring. They have no walls, minimal possessions and live day to day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU4jjdRzy3w

Hong Kong is an intriguing city that I highly recommend to go spend some time in.

"And a result of this public outcry, we've decided to remove the DRM that is crippling this otherwise great software." - Said no company ever