A heartbreaking injustice. Keonne Rodriguez has been sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined $250,000 for creating Samourai Wallet. The judge called privacy “anti-social,” ignoring the real threats faced by ordinary people. Those with courage pay for the indifference of those who refuse to see how brutal this war will be.

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we tolerate closed devices because they’re easy, safe, and subsidized. And because we’ve forgotten what computing freedom feels like.

Julius Caesar figured this out in 50 BC with a stick and some scratches. We are working on quantum computers and we’re still explaining why backdoors don’t discriminate between good and bad guys. Have a great Global Encryption Day! 🙃 This is not a policy debate. It’s collective amnesia. October 21, 2025

Yes, Signal uses AWS. Yes, that’s ironic. But end-2-end encryption still protects your content. The real vulnerability? Metadata, especially for targeted by state surveillance (journalists and activists in hostile environments). That’s why proposal like Chat Control are so dangerous: they target the only thing that actually works when infrastructure can’t be trusted.

Encryption isn't a luxury. It's the last line of defense between your private life and total surveillance. Once it's gone, we won't get it back. Europe can still choose differently. But the window is closing.

THE PLAYBOOK IS CLEAR: 1Introduce legislation as "child protection" 2Ignore technical experts who say it's dangerous and unworkable 3Use emotional arguments to bypass rational debate 4Vote during crisis moments or procedural windows 5 Implement gradually to avoid mass backlash

🇺🇸 EARN IT ACT strips legal protection from encrypted platforms and forces messages scanning. Repeatedly reintroduced despite massive opposition.

🇦🇺 TOLA (2018): The world's first law forcing companies to build decryption capabilities. One analysis estimated adverse economic impact of AU$1 billion due to lost trust in Australian tech.