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You can't have a functioning society/civilization without giving some entities power: much like root privileges or ROP gadgets, anything designed for good can be abused in the hands of malicious parties.

There is no in-band method to prevent[0] subversion- no one can design an instruction set, security scheme or laws that are immune from subversion.

0. Except the evil-bit header in IPv4. Routing equipment always drop evil packets before they reach the victims network, stopping attacks before they happen.



We've had functioning societies with anonymous cash transactions for millennia now.


and then 9/11 happened and Americans lined up behind the flag, and decided anonymous transactions are a threat to national security.




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