> таракан <[1]cryptoanalyzers@protonmail.com>:
   > It can be argued that only 'criminals' should care about changing
   their identity but if you are targeted by a fascist regime, getting a
   new ID is a question of life and death.

   Totally agree.
    > Imagine a real fascist power taking control of the entire planet
   It has ALREADY happened.

   > how much time they need to seek and destroy opponents or individuals
   listed as potential dangers? maybe just one hour...

   We are lucky only in that 'they' themselves (members of the fascist
   power) hate each other and devour each other. And already now (you need
   examples??), they destroy every REALLY threatening their power persons
   (ideologically / psychologically / socially = reputation, etc.).

   таракан <[2]cryptoanalyzers@protonmail.com>:

   My understanding of cypherpunks is that they are/were a group of people
   trying to defeat evil things such as, indeed, Clearview and using their
   deep knowledge of cryptography to counter the use of digital
   technologies by a fascist power (imagine the Third Reich equipped with
   computers...)

   Tracking/Controlling people isn't really knew but let us say there was
   always ... ways to escape... to find another land, another ID, where
   there was no question.

   Think about the fictional character of Jean Valjean in "Les
   Misérables"(the book by Victor Hugo) ...

   As a convict he wore a mark on the arm, identifying him and had his
   infamous condition as a former forcat noted in his passport. This
   doesn't prevented him to become a notable, a rich entrepreuneur named
   Monsieur Madeleine.

   The action is at the beginning of the XIX century in Post-revolutionary
   France.

   Now imagine the same man in ... 2020... an escaped forcat... how can he
   live?, how can he change his identity? How can he transfer funds?
   Anything he will do, any move he will make will be noticed, tracked,
   recorded. The law enforcement will look at him everywhere , in all
   possible databases and if he wants to have a new French passport "the
   hard way", he shall have to tamper protected memory and insert false
   the records inside a biometric passport, which is extremely difficult.
   Corruption and social enginering may not work any more and making fake
   French passport should involve deep knowledge of cryptography...

   Who can do this? Only Cypherpunks.

   It can be argued that only 'criminals' should care about changing their
   identity but if you are targeted by a fascist regime, getting a new ID
   is a question of life and death.

    yet to my understanding, escaping and defeating the net which is
   building itself, making the world as a gigantic jail, should be the
   mission of cypherpunks, or to whatever organization that would succeed
   to them.

   Imagine a real fascist power taking control of the entire planet , how
   much time they need to seek and destroy opponents or individuals listed
   as potential dangers? maybe just one hour...

References

   1. mailto:cryptoanalyzers@protonmail.com
   2. mailto:cryptoanalyzers@protonmail.com