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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @seashell 12h \ on: The Lie of the Lock: A Meditation on the Fraud of Modern Cryptography security
most of us aren’t encrypting to keep out state actors we’re just trying to stay under the radar long enough to exit fiat and unplug. total security is a myth, but so is total control. you don’t win by being invisible, you win by being boring to the wrong people and useful to the right ones.
When some pissant state like France demands backdoors into chat apps, what's the pushback? That those backdoors will fall into the hands or be exploited by someone other.
What is the identity of the Bitcoin hipster? How do anti-statist reconcile that their beloved anti-state technology was bait-and-switch and effectively a state thin-client?
you don't win by being invisible
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