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Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 26, 2023

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Who are the Four Anti-Horsemen of the Infocalypse? In case you're one of today's lucky 10000, the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse are drug dealers, money launderers, terrorists and pedophiles, that is, the groups governments invoke when they want to attack privacy tools.

So, what are the four groups that people can invoke to promote the use of privacy tools? Whistleblowers, dissidents, that's two. Anyone else?

I worked in privacy tech for a couple years, and the other two examples du jour are abuse victims and LGBTQ+