Thanks for clarification. It is hard to verify code of everything, no time for it, and the easy thing is to trust that everything is safe and private. And many people don't have any other choice since they don't know to read code. But we shouldn't assume something is good if there is no link to some information about how it works at least. 

quark

bitcoin_beginners

How private are the messages in a LN transaction?

siggy47

Btw, forgot to mention: Great post @siggy47!

Since people started to use [LUD-12](https://github.com/lnurl/luds/blob/luds/12.md) for DMs, I've been wondering if people just know that someone like Snowden should probably not use this to plan his next steps, or if they simply assume that as secure as any other DM system.

Finally someone asked for clarification, lol