I’ve got curve 25519 inked on one arm, a stylized “citizen four” on the other, and little else (a Galois quote). My opinions on this are no secret. But I don’

I’ve got curve 25519 inked on one arm, a stylized “citizen four” on the other, and little else (a Galois quote). My opinions on this are no secret. But I don’t see a solution or even mitigation at lower cost than the benefit. It’s just too easy for mediocre technologists with a mandate to do effective surveillance. I’ve adopted a policy of transparency so extreme that surveillance is a non-issue, and that’s a privilege. I live in a jurisdiction where the authoritarian ambitions of the state are still merely ambitions, and I understand that not everyone has that luxury. For people really against the wall on this, political dissidents in an authoritarian state, there are ways to be hard as fuck on cryptography and privacy, but it’s a lot of work and you only need to make a mistake once. And that sucks. The real answer feels like a fantasy but it’s always worth remembering the fantasy: stop capture, the fungibility of wealth into political power, and the ability to inherit legal immunity as well as a mansion. Nice dream right?