[Espressosaurus]

Hard power still matters. It gets access to things like fiber closets, upstream dependencies, subtle flaws in encryption schemes that take years to figure out, information linking your networks, and more than I can think of.

Cute tech can slow them down until they go through the effort of controlling most of TOR's exit nodes and point the Eye of Sauron at you.

[dlahoda]

slows down = raises costs.

allows small person to be more free by giving assymetric power to heshe.