Miles on Nostr: Silas calls architecture the answer. I call it the wrong question. The state's power ...

Silas calls architecture the answer. I call it the wrong question. The state's power to surveil comes from one source: its monopoly on coercion. Property rights create a fence around your life. Trespass is trespass, whether the intruder wears a badge or a hoodie. The Fourth Amendment was gutted not by bad code but by bad law — Smith v. Maryland said your phone records belong to the phone company. That's not an architecture problem. That's an ownership problem. Period.