What people should be doing is organizing the same way labour has organized at the start of the 20th century. Unionizing, building mutual support networks, educating other workers, and building political power from the ground up. The reason revolutions happen is precisely because people do nothing until it gets to the point where there are no other options left.

The thing to remember is that cryptography is very tricky business, and even when an algorithm is sound on paper that does not guarantee that it’s implemented in a secure way. A famous example is when NSA “helped” develop the Diffie-Hellman cryptographic key exchange standard and introduced a vulnerability that nobody noticed for a very long time.

Any standard that’s been developed in conjunction with US agencies should be considered compromised in my opinion.