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by alsetmusic 1405 days ago
If you trust encryption, sure[0]. But state actors have basically unlimited resources. I don’t think any individual can stand up against that forever.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2013/09/nsa-backdoored-and-stole-keys/

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And in addition, to say we can use encryption to fight the surveillance state is a tacit admission that the system actually works as described, or at least that is the intent. And again Dick was not trying to predict actual technology. He was mainly thinking about how it could be used, and he was frequently on the mark.
To add to that: https://youtu.be/_ahcUuNO4so - "Crypto Won't Save You Either" from Peter Gutmann