@cstross @theklan @mattblaze @blasen

Matt is an expert in cryptography, not in predicting what authoritarians will do, or whether they will get away with it.

Is he right that Trump has as much chance of circumventing election laws as he does changing the laws of thermodynamics? No, Trump has much better odds of doing one over the other. Will Trumo get away with it? No, likely not. But the fact that it is is something on his mind is itself a ramping of authoritarianism.

Any cryptographer on earth should be capable of seeing that very clearly.