"The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld," Jamie Bartlett, examines
   the
   options for escaping observation -- for a while. Cypherpunks is
   featured for
   promoting privacy with technology; crypto, anonymizers, digital
   currency,
   unauthorized disclosures and more.
   And how escaping observation very often involves criminal activity,
   although
   as Tim May and others claimed, that is the price paid for cloaking from
   prying eyes. That Tor cloaks 415-1230% of child porn sites, 550-7000%
   of
   drug sales, and the like, is allegedly seen by the rebellious
   undergrounders
   as "so what, personal freedom is not free."
   So the richest have the greatest personal freedom, "so what," declared
   Judge Loretta Preska sentencing shackled hackers for violating the
   private
   enclaves of her kind's lawfully-bending relatives and unjudicials.
   Security of any kind is always bleak, not just due to NSA, its the
   Devil,
   why else would religion exist except to forecast the worst imaginable
   and preach slim chances of avoiding prying eyes of homicidal deity.
   Crypto bent-back prayer leads the day in fashionable cloaks against
   inevitable deitific spying -- mostly done by the same devils who
   espouse
   cryptosystems which inevitably fail like perpetual motion machinic
   faiths
   of all kinds.
   To the rescue upgrades offer a tad more dreadless illusion while
   injecting sand and rust into the sanctuaries, desktops, laptops,
   handhelds, clouds, national security, 4-rotored ski lifts to heaven.
   Hey, wake up, faithless cypherpunks will not be fooled, remember
   this when cold dead hands clamber into windows of Ecuadorian
   embassies, run skirted circles at Fort Leavenworth, dream of
   languid days key-signig in Hawaii from scrotum-iced pole
   dancing in Moscow, incise 365x24 days x 10 years to go
   on large sceen cell walls.
   Remember too where the grandfathers of cpunks loll, picking
   fleas from their cats, rueing STDs on their bitches, grooming
   authors of Deep and Dark Web tomes of horrific beasts
   lurking inside electronic frontiers of children's Kindles.
   At 08:46 AM 6/18/2015, you wrote:

     2015-06-18 13:28 GMT+09:00 grarpamp <[1]grarpamp@gmail.com>:

          Cypherpunks... when / where will it all end?

     The cost of observation is ever dropping. With improved processing
     capability (hardware and software) the value of data is ever rising.
     There is only one logical conclusion: permanent, global observation.
     Resistance is effective but eventually futile, you cannot reverse
     time, you cannot reverse progress.
     More fruitful is managing the inevitable future. Will we go gently
     into corporate hell? Will we let power games rule us? Do the wealthy
     buy privacy, and the people's data? Will you, at the very least, own
     the data about you? Will populism be managed by algorithms? Do our
     current systems still work in such a future? How will the developed
     areas relate to the underdeveloped? Etc. etc. etc.

References

   1. mailto:grarpamp@gmail.com