The window to deploy surveillance-resistant systems is running out
Surveillance-resistant systems are not an answer to authoritarianism.Private companies do not have freedom of operation in authoritarian regimes.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.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.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.[1] https://xkcd.com/538/