# Kidnappings; are we ready? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [May 13, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/kidnappings-are-we-ready/51223 "2025-05-13T16:36:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 35
**Author:** ![zancas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/zancas/32/42011_2.png) [@zancas](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/zancas)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/kidnappings-are-we-ready/51223/35 "2025-12-19T19:21:15Z")
It’s important to help more people understand this. When e.g. @frankbraun shows up wearing a mask and glasses, or @artkor presents only with digitized voice and no video… _ **They are both demonstrating how we can become safer AND incrementally increasing that safety.** _ It is virtuous and laudable to do the right thing and _shield your wealth_. If you have transparent zcash, please shield it to better protect us all. If you hold BTC please SWAP via DEX with an app like @paullinator 's [https://edge.app/](https://edge.app/) to shielded ZEC. When you shield your wealth you increase the cost of coercion. This is a pro-social act that makes life better for everyone. _When you take up your shield, you protect us all._ Contrariwise when we compromise on privacy we put everyone in danger: > [@Hanh for ZCG (December 2025)](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/hanh-for-zcg-december-2025/53373/31): > > The use of transparent addresses (if it exists) MUST be: though I am happy to see the continuing deprecation of their use. My concern, however, is not about transparent addresses but about the position you took at ZconV that there should be protocol-level collaboration with “authorities”: [[Zcash Wallet Landscape - ZconV: Zcash Unified 2024 #Zcash #ZEC] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi4OPfWLd2k&t=4080s) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/kidnappings-are-we-ready/51223)._