I've said this before but given "current topic", time to say it again: pattern-matching to the 90s winning of the crypto wars is just wrong. The political forces leading to full ID and monitoring of e...
The incentives are also quite different. Without strong encryption, the growing e-commerce industry would have started lobbying for it eventually.
> Perhaps only a very dark future involving a lot of war can stop this inevitable flow towards digital tyranny.
Depends on the details, but as long as electronic equipment still works, war tends to cause (acceptance of) surveilance - including China style street phone inspections. They don't bother with the ZK-facade. Potemkin SNARK?
On the bright side: people are having fewer children, so at some point the obsession over protecting them becomes silly :-)
> Perhaps only a very dark future involving a lot of war can stop this inevitable flow towards digital tyranny.
Depends on the details, but as long as electronic equipment still works, war tends to cause (acceptance of) surveilance - including China style street phone inspections. They don't bother with the ZK-facade. Potemkin SNARK?
On the bright side: people are having fewer children, so at some point the obsession over protecting them becomes silly :-)
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