The IRS has a $625,000 bounty out to anyone who can deanonymize Monero. If someone succeeds, will it hit 0?

Or, can the validators just roll back the code and fix the exploit after the fact, reanonymizing any new data? You don't have to be a Nobel Laureate to see we're living in an Orwellian dystopia here. Privacy coins look more and more like humanity's last bastion of freedom. If Uncle Sam "cracks the code", is the jig up, and what can we do as a community to not get thrown in the gulag so to speak and reclaim privacy?