On: Why does APT not use HTTPS?

[DoctorOetker]

what about journalists, whistleblowers, strictly vocal critics of the centralized surveillance state [0], lawyers, politicians, ... ?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16947652

EDIT: just adding, we also don't know what the cost is of the most efficient privacy presevering distribution method actually is. only when people investigate and try will we find out.