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Comment by ferdo | Hacker News Reader

> advocating for a permanent policy change is the better solution.

Policy changes come about because of technical reality. Better technology is always superior to government policy.

By all means, pursue both the technical and political solutions. But creating and distributing tools has proven to be the better method of change than depending on governments.

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Someone stated it below, but "the legal contract [must] allow for the technical solutions". If the government makes security illegal... then what?

As much as we might not want to depend on the government, we're subject to policy.

We're only subject to the policies that they can enforce. If a technical solution is found that routes around government's ability to employ surveillance and interference, there's not a lot they can do about it until they catch up.

If security is outlawed, only outlaws will be secure.

Guns and badges go a long way in enforcing something that is technically "impossible."

I remember reading somewhere that in Columbia a kilogram of cocaine costs a dollar. If you can manage to get that dollar across the U.S border you basically just printed money. Meanwhile if you want to buy that cocaine in the U.S you'll pay a lot of money for it.

Moral of the story: Illegalization doesn't make things impossible, it pushes their cost up high enough to make them economically infeasible.

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