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by spaceman_2020 1405 days ago
Escaping government encroachment is literally the purpose of the technology. It needs no other purpose.

The thing is, most people here don’t think that escaping government encroachment is a worthwhile endeavor. Which is pretty much the antithesis of the word “hacker”

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> Escaping government encroachment is literally the purpose of the technology.

You are assuming that the government is tech-illiterate/tech avoidant. As it stands, several US government agencies are way ahead of civilians on tech, and not for the purposes of escaping the government. Technology is just a tool, it can be used to further any end the wielder chooses