When I see things like this, I just wish HN had a superupvote button. Definitely adding this to my "favorite, underappreciated articles that everyone should rea

When I see things like this, I just wish HN had a superupvote button. Definitely adding this to my "favorite, underappreciated articles that everyone should read" list. I think a solution to the problems outlined in the article is sneakily smuggling privacy with something else (Apple sort of does that) or making government resistant solutions. I mean systems that you don't even run, that you release to the world and you have no control over. Solutions that communicate in ways hard to detect, and have no central points of failure. Solutions that are hard to shut down, that never die unless the last two computers using them die. They must be tampering and censorship resistant, no matter if you call the censorship censorship, protection against terrorism or preventing copyright infringement. Yes, it is hard, especially that, for any hope of success, the solutions must be as good (or better) than centralized ones. If they are not (if their UX is not), people won't flock to them. That is our only hope of winning in this war. The fight will be hard. It laready is, but that's the only way forward, if we don't want to live in an Orwellian state in twenty years.