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but then you have to catch them. wouldn't it be better if they didn't have the ability to do that in the first place?



If that was possible, we wouldn't need Certificate Transparency (whose purpose is to at scale detect Certificate Authorities doing this and other shenanigans).

Also "being able to catch them" is strictly better than "basically not able to catch them", which is the case for Twitter DMs (and most common DM systems), which was mentioned up-thread.




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