No, but timing attacks against the Tor network are a real avenue and one that has been known / explored / likely exploited for a long, long time. That "simply" requires having a bunch of nodes in the network (not exit nodes, traffic nodes) so you can compare timing between different paths and use it to guesstimate origin paths for messages.
This is how genocide happens, they're trying to dehumanize white people so they can trick the low IQers into killing us. The good news is that if they take too long to do it, we'll invent new ways of fucking them up and they won't have time to steal or copy them before their doom is met.
Hang on: it's more nuanced than that. He didn't invent the mainstream branch of email but he did create an early, novel system:
He WAY oversells what he did but to say he is completely lying is false.
Agreed. This wasn't the time to rush any building. There must be competing institutions and widespread readiness for a transition before it's forced, IMHO.