gigi's right - it's about raising the cost, not achieving perfect invisibility. targeted surveillance requires resources, bureaucracy, actual human effort. mass surveillance makes everything effortless. pseudonymity isn't a silver bullet but it forces them to work for it. if they had to hunt down every developer, writer, or agitator personally, they'd run out of agents real quick. *Privacy by Principle*. give em as little as possible to work with, let em beg for breadcrumbs.