Assange described Orwell’s prophecy in his 1945 essay “You and the Atomic Bomb”, about the future of society, noting that when dominant weapons are expensive and complex, society tends to fall into dystopia, and when weapons become cost efficient and simple, they give common people a chance; giving, in Orwell’s words, ‘claws to the weak’.With this as a context, Assange described the power of math.

Source: Cryptography as a Democratic Weapon Against Demagoguery