I agree. Out of nowhere a bunch of noobs are like fuck yeah privnote! Big deal, reading that page just makes me laugh. This says next to nothing. So private, you only need to reveal an IP address and the contents of your communications. How is that even award worthy? That is true for any conceivable messaging system. What else are they going to do, I guess they could make you register with a credit card or show photo ID. So private of them to not make you do that !! Messages are deleted says not much , how they are deleted matters more there. Maybe they do not log IP address, I guess that is better than them keeping it forever. That shows a complete lack of technical knowledge on their part. The type of encryption used by privnote is notoriously insecure, you can not fuxxing have purely server side encryption that is in the slightest bit secure unless you are using really advanced and not even practical almost entirely only theoretical crypto systems. Privnote is not. SSL keeps communications confidential between you and privnote, big deal that is not anywhere near what is required for secure client to client communications. Well at least they know that! Yes Privnote is much more secure if you encrypt the URL with GPG prior to transferring it over a potentially insecure channel , but it is in turn much much much much much more secure if you just encrypt the message with GPG in the first place. Privnote is trash. It is a completely flawed design. It deserves no privacy awards. You are safer to not even use it.