You Cannot Encrypt Your Face
Democracy may be impossible in a world where no dissent is anonymous.
The night of December 16, 1773, dozens of Massachusetts colonists quietly boarded three ships and dumped what would now be close to $1 million worth of British tea into Boston Harbor.
The Sons of Liberty painted their faces and dressed like Native Americans. They barely spoke, to avoid revealing their identities. “There. It worked. Only a single person was caught.
