The New War On Privacy And How We Win

The surveillance state is here. Flock cameras track your every move. Palantir builds digital dossiers on everyone. ICE buys your location data in bulk. Your devices are being turned against you with mandatory age verification. And the developers building our digital shields are being arrested.

The battle seems unwinnable. But history of full of unwinnable battles that were won anyway.

Phil Zimmermann vs. US Government, defeating encryption controls.
Cult of the Dead Cow vs. Microsoft, forcing the tech giant to finally take security seriously.
Clipper Chip vs. Everyone, with researchers like Matt Blaze giving a devastating blow to this backdoor tool via a peer-reviewed paper that exposed its fatal flaws.

Let's learn some lesson for how they won these unwinnable battles.
The battle for digital freedom is here, and we have the playbook to win it.