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UBI is also the most effective tool ever devised for implementing tyranny.

This strikes me as a distinction without a difference. Stigmatism is the antibody of the criminal law immune system. And in order to decriminalize something you have to first destigmatize it. That’s precisely why medical marijuana was the first step.

The problem is not that you are wrong. You are, in fact, correct. The problem is that there are only two possible solutions:

1. The human race adapts to disinformation. This probably takes a generation or two.

2. We hand over the greatest instrument for tyranny to either the government or large corporations.

The first solution isn’t fun. But it is the only reasonable choice.

We at the Enarx project (https://try.enarx.dev) plan to implement precisely such a network policy in the very near future.

Disclaimer: I'm from the Enarx project (https://enarx.io) which is associated with the BytecodeAlliance.

I think a good analogy is: wasmer is to qemu as BytecodeAlliance is to rust-vmm.

Wasmer is a general purpose WASM runtime. But BytecodeAlliance is a place to build tooling for the construction of runtimes (WASM or otherwise), including special purpose runtimes. I think there is a lot of space for both in the growing non-browser WASM market.

We are working on a solution to this problem in the Clevis project[0]. It is a basic FUSE filesystem that will transparently decrypt your secrets/configuration. It will evaluate your decryption policy on each open and log the attempt.

You can see the initial proof of concept[1]. It isn't secure yet, for a variety of reasons. But it is enough to play around with. Moving to a better encryption scheme will give us the ability to do locks and per-block validation.

[0]: https://github.com/latchset/clevis [1]: https://github.com/npmccallum/clevis/blob/fuse/src/clevis-fu...