https://onezero.medium.com/rubber-hoses-fd685385dcd4
"The cypherpunks were wrong.
But also, the cypherpunks were
right.
The rule of law is a bulwark against tyranny, but so is privacy. The rule of
law works well, but it fails badly. When the state decides to ignore its own
laws, we need a private place where we can organize to force the state to seek
the consent of the governed.
Cryptography is a game-changer. With unbreakable mathematical ciphers, we can
construct messages that can only be decoded by their intended recipients, no
matter that our adversary has all the computing resources in the universe to
throw at the problem (literally: the photo you snap with your smartphone is
converted to a cryptographically scrambled file in an eyeblink, but you
couldn’t brute-force the key to descramble it, not with all the time remaining
in the universe, not even if you converted every hydrogen atom into a computer
that did nothing but guess and guess and guess).
That means that the public has more theoretical power to resist state scrutiny
than at any time in human history. But that, in and of itself, cannot beat back
tyranny."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
