The story with Samourai is the latest round of an eternal game between cat and mouse. The mouse always wants to live in peace, the cat always wants to catch the mice. However good the mice get at hiding, the cat has to get better at finding.

In the same way that we want to maintain our privacy and keep our hard-earned money, the government wants to maintain order and take an ever-larger cut. There will always be some kind of a state and it will not give up its power voluntarily. Neither will we give in totally. We develop tools, they work to defeat them.

The best we can hope for is a balance where we prosper while keeping the state in the dark. At this time the state is strong and is attempting to scare us but that will change. The state will begin to starve as our tools improve and are adopted by an ever larger segment of society.

This game of cat and mouse will never stop. It's human nature to want power just as it is to want to be left alone. Though our freedoms always seem to be diminishing and the state's power growing it doesn't go that way for ever. There are always balancing factors.

Our challenge is to develop and use our tools with discretion and care. Only in that way can we keep the corrupt state in the dark so that more of us can live in peace than the state has any idea.