Cory Doctorow on Nostr: From the earliest days of technopolitics, the role of technology in resisting ...

From the earliest days of technopolitics, the role of technology in resisting authoritarianism was unclear. On the one hand, there's the indisputable fact that modern cryptography, properly implemented, can deliver a degree of privacy that is proof against all technological attacks.

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