Oddbean new post about login | logout GM 🏴☠️ "[Encryption] means nothing less than the ability to organize groups outside state control, and thus a diminution in the power of states to control." - Balaji Srinivasan
In the US, I compare it also to three rights specifically: The right to free speech (encryption can protect my speech in transit and at rest). Most importantly, the right to bear arms (firearms or body armor for personal defense). I have the right to defend information critical to my life and property (like Bitcoin). I also use it to defend myself from unreasonable search and seizure. In this case, it's an explicit protection that prevents the government from just secretly stealing what they can't get legally. At least in theory. nostr:nevent1qqsd0k9scplwdg5r7a03pnuafg23n8uvxqetchl9wa3dwxdlj38lu9qppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsdxm5qs0a8kdk6aejxew9nlx074g7cnedrjeggws0sq03p4s9khmqrqsqqqqqpxg9tjd
The other shoe that is waiting to drop: compute. Transferring and storing information is the necessary precondition to social organization. But then what do you do? Compute, network, activity. Once encrypted, sovereign, distributed compute within dark forest sub-nets of individuals and communities begins to spread, you'll see the State's censoriousness and hostility towards free speech as barely a warm-up... nostr:nevent1qqsd0k9scplwdg5r7a03pnuafg23n8uvxqetchl9wa3dwxdlj38lu9qpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3q6dhgpql60vmd4mnydjut87vla23a38j689jssaqlqqlzrtqtd0kqxpqqqqqqzcsh39v
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