On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 6:00 PM John Young <[1]jya@pipeline.com> wrote:

   This critique is applicable to all forms of
   comsec/infosec/anonymity/Tor although the incessant promotion various
   means to escape being hacked, tracked, decrypted, identified appears to
   be unstoppable due to the monetization and assurances of protection for
   internet users by predators and bullshitters working hand in hand with
   authorities which are extremely pleased with the aiders and abetters,
   not a few which came into prominance and profitability on this shewd
   mail list and its offshoots, luring gullible readers into capacious
   honeypots, watering holes, stings, dark markets, cults of dead cows
   exploitation, enlistment into spy agencies and professorships and law
   offices and NGOs and financial theiveries..
   "PGP and Gnupgp," "PRZ," "RSA," "AES," "open source," "digital cash,"
   "e-gold," "bitcoin," "Satoshi," "work around censorship," "don't trust
   governments," "write code," "assassination politics," "EFF,"
   "WikiLeaks." Hut, two, three, four.
   Some have died on public duty, others smeared, imprisoned and exiled,
   quite a few gone onto dreary jobs in the security industry bossed,
   herded, contemned, retired by MBA lunkheads reaping top benefits over
   the grunts chained to computers deranged by dreams of what could have
   been and maybe still can be. Get sec vaxed, often, jabbed with updates
   unending as wars. Best to cooperate, deliver speeches, grab bounties,
   warn of threats, dismiss opponents.

   We are more than this.  Our cultures throb in the chest of the globe.
   Those people who survive, who stay well, maybe they are making
   speeches, grabbing bounties, but what is really alive is that feeling
   of what matters.  People yell, people scream, but things keep
   mattering.  Life is something that never ends, despite the people
   involved having death and birth.
   Tor works a lot better than a firewall does.
   Risking death is hard, but some people cannot help but do it.

References

   1. mailto:jya@pipeline.com