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Whether I do or don't, they're just going to imprison me until I comply with a judge's order to turn over the password I've forgotten from all the police beatin
by salesguy222 10y ago
Whether I do or don't, they're just going to imprison me until I comply with a judge's order to turn over the password I've forgotten from all the police beatings and solitary confinement I would have been through at the point.
Technical defenses don't work under fascism. Fascists will just physically and insidiously torture their rivals.
Security through obscurity is the only way to be pretty safe, and hopefully you can get some truly powerful political candidates elected that won't sell the populace into fascism, which is what the US is on its way towards. Beware, truly brazen fascist states will assassinate your political leaders of the opposition. See Russia and China for more details
Until then, stay underground!
- 839083 10y agoIt seems like "security through obscurity" could only successfully combine with encryption if a critical mass of the population got onboard very quickly. But security-conscious users are just such a minority, even programmers have bad security habits. Anecdotally, almost everyone I know is using Gmail or Yahoo for email, and has never heard of ProtonMail or Signal. They'd probably mark an email from @protonmail.com as spam...