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by barnabee 1163 days ago
We should not only stop building tech that aids authoritarianism but start building tech that fights it.

Time for a cypherpunk revival.

2 comments

Dystopia is where the real money's at.
And they'll just infiltrate your open source project, in the name of preventing petty "harassment" of developers. That way they will allow weaknesses in the protocol to arise, due to attrition of the best developers. And there you go, everything has been handed over to intelligence agencies, who can now easily break its security.