The window to deploy surveillance-resistant systems is running out
Surveillance-resistant systems are not an answer to authoritarianism.<p>Private companies do not have freedom of operation in authoritarian regimes.<p>It's a special sort of odd neoliberal fantasy where capitalists or technologists can route around an authoritarian social movement that seizes the power of the state.<p>Do you want to know what happens to people who think they can route around an authoritarian regime with clever computer code? There's a relevant XKCD about a $5 wrench [1], except instead of a $5 wrnech it's the entire apparatus of a developed nation-state.<p>If you really think authoritarianism is coming to your country, stop fucking around with prime numbers and get serious about the work of political persuasion.<p>[1] <a href="https://xkcd.com/538/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/538/</a>