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This was very cool. Thanks all who tuned in. Thoughts and more to follow soon 🙏 https://t.co/FfZjr7lshJ
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10/ What You Can Do Right Now? Use E2EE apps (Signal, Element, ETC) Enable 2FA with hardware keys VPN + Tor for sensitive traffic Support EFF, FSF, Access Now Listen to the Freedom Forum The race never ends...
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9/ Endgame Scenarios Total State Victory: Ubiquitous backdoored devices, social credit on steroids, no anonymity. Total Citizen Victory: Universal strong crypto, decentralized everything, governments reduced to traffic cams. Reality? A grinding stalemate where both sides keep
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8/ Asymmetric Warfare: The Chilling Effect Even if you beat the tech, self-censorship wins. Knowing your journalist source, therapist texts, or political DMs might leak makes people shut up. Democracy runs on private spaces; chill those and you chill speech.
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7/ The Encryption Ban Gambit Politicians float outright E2EE bans (US EARN IT Act drafts, EU Chat Control). Math doesn’t care about laws and banning strong crypto just pushes it underground or offshore. Remember the 1990s Crypto Wars? Phil Zimmermann won; the code became speech.
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6/ Government Escalation: Device Compromise Pegasus spyware infects with a missed WhatsApp call. FBI’s CIPAV, China’s Golden Shield app mandates. States want endpoint control. “Lawful intercept” modules baked into 5G standards (ETSI TS 103 221) show the fight is moving to
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5/ Citizen Escalation: Zero-Knowledge & Decentralization Response? Zero-knowledge proofs (Monero, Signal’s sealed sender), decentralized ID (Self-Sovereign Identity on blockchain), and mesh networks (Briar, Session). When the pipe itself can’t be trusted, route around it.
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4/ Counterpunch #2: Mass Surveillance Infrastructure NSA’s PRISM, GCHQ’s Tempora, China’s Great Firewall, India’s CMS… billions of dollars in fiber taps, IMSI catchers, and AI sifting. Your metadata (who, when, where) paints a richer portrait than content ever could. XKeyscore
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3/ Government Counterpunch #1: Lawful Access Demands Australia’s 2018 Assistance and Access Act, UK Investigatory Powers Act, EU’s eEvidence proposal all force companies to build backdoors or hand over keys. “If you’ve got nothing to hide…” rings hollow when the same laws enable
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2/ The Citizen Side: Encryption Goes Mainstream In the 90s, PGP was nerd territory. Today, Signal, WhatsApp E2EE, and Tor are in billions of pockets. ProtonMail, VPNs, and hardware keys like Yubico let anyone run their own mini Fortress of Solitude. Open-source code means the
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Privacy as an Arms Race: Governments vs. Personal Freedoms 1/ Privacy isn’t a static right, it’s a battlefield. Every advance in personal encryption is met with a government countermeasures . Think of it like an arms race. We arm ourselves with tools and the State responds.
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CT used to debate Austrian economics vs Keynesianism. Cypherpunk ethics. Digital sovereignty etc. Now you’re crying in a casino.
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More fun facts for the X influencers: you can send your BTC using radio waves
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Everyone's chasing the next 100x shitcoin while governments are building financial panopticons. CBDC rollouts. Biometric verification. Transaction monitoring. Social credit integration. DarkFi isn't a speculative bet. It's infrastructure and user-facing products. Let there be
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Sorry for never selling ourselves, our views, opinions or values
We’d Like to Apologize… to Absolutely Nobody. ⚡️ We: Never mixed in KYC “options.” Never added privacy-eroding features. Never played nice with exchanges. Never spied on our users. Never added banana features. Never took VC money. Never hid our code. We built freedom tech!
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Nice. We need more of this in crypto
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We need some of you for the privacy forum people
40+ speakers will activate @ethereum privacy stack 🔥 Expect diverse privacy 💸 Transactional privacy 📱Application privacy 🏦Institutional privacy 📢Public Goods & Privacy 👯Community role in privacy Web: https://t.co/HFDknD0z3A Tickets: https://t.co/OArML7l3hW
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