Like Johannes Trithemius, we face overwhelming forces driven by an increasingly benighted impulse to control and subdue the general populace. But today, these forces of repression have a new tool: digital surveillance.

National authorities and private conglomerates monitor our movements, communication, and spending - often in unholy collaboration. They use that information to divide us through propaganda and impose extra-legal controls on our activities.

No society can thrive under authoritarian censorship - whatever flag it flies. Creativity, innovation, and rebelion are often words for the same thing.

Trithemius is here for the rebels.