The final defense is always to change the government (one way or another). When we need to resort to technical mean we have lost.

Would-be revolutionaries need secure, reliable comms even more than the average person.

Change the governance. Both red, blue and the corporate sides are supportive of this.

True, I always wonder how that would actually play out.

The geeks would likely be the elite class force to tumble it if it ever became necassary I reckon.

>That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

The opposite is true.