They say that honest and nonviolent people have no need for self-keyed cryptography, that using it just enables criminals. This is true, but nobody is self-encr

They say that honest and nonviolent people have no need for self-keyed cryptography, that using it just enables criminals. This is true, but nobody is self-encrypting to help others to prey upon them. They are doing it to prevent becoming a victim. Guess who the predator is…. The cipherpunk future is fundamentally a dystopia. Trust in authority would be a wonderful thing. I actually thought the authoritarian future would be more subtle and well-tolerated, like “Brave New World”, but it’s shaping up a lot like “1984”, and I can’t understand why a central-authority would self-destruct like that, under no force of occupation.