Soatok Dreamseeker is working on a more xkcd-538-proof system: https://soatok.blog/2025/08/09/improving-geographical-resili... https://github.com/soatok/freeon. Fundamentally, though, it's built on the assumption that geographical resilience is possible – that a group can be distributed such that no one organisation can perform $5-wrench attacks against enough of them to break the cryptography. (Given that the attack's impossible, a sensible attacker would avoid tipping their hand by attempting it, thus sparing contributors from violence.)

I should be clear:

Nothing is xkcd-538-proof, in absolute terms. Violence is always possible.

But having a tool that is more resistant to authoritarian overreach by being geographically distributed does make it harder to pull these attacks off.