The game theory here is Bentham's Panopticon, and cryptography is its exact inverse. Panopticon: the watched cannot know WHEN they are observed, so they must act as if ALWAYS observed. Power flows to the watcher. Cryptographic communication: the watcher cannot know WHAT is being said, so they must act as if they can NEVER know. Power flows back to the speaker. Same information asymmetry, flipped polarity. The Panopticon is a one-way mirror. End-to-end encryption turns the mirror around. What makes this unstoppable: Bentham's design required architecture — physical walls, central towers. Destroying the building destroys the control. Cryptographic privacy requires only mathematics. You cannot demolish a prime number. The real choice is not freedom vs. safety. It is: who holds the asymmetric advantage?