[fsflover]

This is not the only way how political fight happens. There are indeed many whistleblowers with runied lives. But there are also many more people who devote a part of their life to educating others and encrypting what they can. I put GNU/Linux to every computer of my relatives I could reach. I participate in I2P and Tor networks regularly. I also have a day job and I am not going to risk it. But if a tiny part of the population did what I do, the world would be entirely different. People do care about anonymity and privacy. It's just that they have very limited resources and not everyone can devote a significant part of their time for that. Please help them and do not spread the mood of giving up.

tl;dr: Privacy is not binary. You can always increase the price of hacking you and others.

[BiteCode_dev]

You make the mistake a lot of geeks does, thinking it's a technical problem. It's not.

You can have the best tech in the world, if the state is against you, if laws are against you, if society is against you, you'll only have scraps of a life.

It's all about people caring. Because only the mass of human can oppose anything. The rest are just sparks.

And you can state "do care about anonymity and privacy" as much as you want. Words don't matter. Actions do.

And people are still putting their entire life willingly on Facebook.

[fsflover]

I never said it was a technical problem. It is the problem of asymmetry in information and resources. When more people know that you can confortably use devices without spying and violations of privacy, more people will oppose stupid laws removing our basic rights and spyware.

However, not everyone has time/energy to think about those issues. You need to help people by showing them better options, especially if they do not impose any restrictions. And a lot of free software is like this in 2020.