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It easily feels as though technology is stagnating when capitalism cannibalises everything that can be used to alienate and placate workers.
A few big ones:
Solar technology is now cheaper and more efficient both economically and materially than fossil fuels.
MRNA vaccines went from theory to revolutionising vaccine research with implications across diseases we've already created therapies for.
Neural networks have genuinely done good things for medical sciences, physics, engineering.
3D printing has made our appliances and devices more repairable than ever, and allows partisans to subvert the state's monopoly on violence in new and ingenious ways.
Modern communication software and the encryption behind them has given modern socialist movements secure and anonymous communications that even the most powerful intelligence services cannot penetrate without social engineering.
that's all stuff that helps me but there's many more I bet
Danger. They don't need social engineering, they can hack you. They can hack your iphone, your carrier will help them. They can hack your computer, your ISP will help them. Are they doing this all the time to everyone? No, it's not practical and more use raises more chances of your tools and methods being detected. Should organizers be wary of the limits of their abilities to secure their electronic communications on devices that are likely compromised with backdoors at the hardware level? Absolutely. Even regular cops can use zionist cyberweapons they purchase to hack racial justice organizers, what the NSA and CIA have are even nicer but totally classified.
Do use encryption, do make it so your data can't be easily subpoenaed or siphoned up in bulk collection. Do make it harder on them. Do force them to burn expensive methods if they ever try and produce anything they have in court. But do not think it makes you totally invulnerable if you get on their radar and they want to get that info as it does not.
Meh, encryption hasn't really changed much in the past decade. Most data is still encrypted using AES, which has been around since 2001. RSA and elliptic curves have been in use for decades as well.