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that's why encrypted communications and burner phones are what we all need to be really talking about.
Even then, how can trust scale up? Who makes the call "today is the day" for a huge group without that person getting a knock on their door?
I forget where I read this, but if the British had just all the metadata we have today, then they could have stopped Paul Revere.
again: ENCRYPTED communication.
EDIT: if it was easy, we would have done it by now. I'm not advocating anything but if you wanted to do it right, you would probably begin by reading as much info about cold war espionage as possible. the revolution would be foolish to do via the internet. the internet would only serve as a rallying cry to make people realize what had to be done. the dirty work would never be planned in ones and zeroes.
Right, but encryption doesn't necessarily eliminate metadata. And since so little traffic gets onion routed, even that is a signal.
Cold war espionage is a different situation because Soviet/Western hierarchy eliminated coordination problems.
like i said, it won't be easy and i definitely don't have the solutions. i'm just here to say what has to be done if you want to prevent an inescapable dystopia.