The thing is, "encryption" doesn't have backdoors. Otherwise it's not encrypted. What has backdoors is the apps and software that developers write to wrap around encryption. So as long as we continue to have FOSS, we're good.

That should be the absolute focus of our collective efforts, to protect FOSS. The risk is not that they force Meta to break E2E encryption or Apple and Google to bypass it by spying directly on your screen and microphone. Those laws are 100% INEVITABLE. They're coming like it or not.

The risk is that they continue to get away with indicting and sending to jail the Tornado Cash devs (even if in the US they seem to be safer, in Europe they won't be), so we stop having FOSS that circumvents their tyranny.

The secondary risk is of course that 99% of the people don't give a shit and will continue to participate in the totalitarian experiment. That puts *us* at risk because vires in numeris, so the fewer we are, the easier it is to target us. But well, I can't force anybody to give up their "convenience" to protect me.

To reiterate: there is no point in trying to prevent the regime from not doing what has long been decided it will do. It must necessarily do it. Asking it not to is like asking it to disband. Never gonna happen. Let's focus on building spaces outside of it, and on the limits, and let's move there as much as we can.