> Some scientists were in the process of establishing secured, private communications channels among themselves in an effort to coordinate their actions to main

> Some scientists were in the process of establishing secured, private communications channels among themselves in an effort to coordinate their actions to maintain academic freedom under an increasingly restrictive presidential administration. Somehow this makes me think of the 1990s, and I expect some old-school developers and users of PGP are quite-reasonably feeling a bit "I told you so." (Although I suppose exchanging encrypted e-mails suffers from a metadata-leak problem.) If you are pessimistic about your government's future integrity, then today is the time to create networks of personal trust and secure ways to communicate. It'll be far harder if you start only after some Kafkaesque system is trying to ban end-to-end encryption and snaring people into unwilling informants.