Did you know? In the 1990s, Daniel Bernstein had to sue the US government just to publish encryption source code online. The case helped cement a radical cypherpunk idea: code can be speech, so banning cryptographic software is not just technical regulation, it is censorship with a compiler attached. That mattered because privacy tools only protect people if people are actually free to share and run them. If writing defensive code can be treated like a political act, what does that say about who power fears most?

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