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0 pointsfalcolas9y ago0 comments

Simply using VPNs and Tor provided a signal, and is (per previously released documents) a great way to get on a short list of people to pay more attention to.

I almost think we'd be better off going the other direction and hiding our signal in a bunch of noise, or just grab everything and review it on an uncompromised network (such as "spider every top link from HN and store it locally, then browse only that local copy").

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kbart9y ago· 1 in thread

If enough people use secure communications, then it becomes noise. Take an old, boring door lock analogy: everyone locks their home door, but nobody thinks that they have something to hide or illegal in their home just because of that. Making privacy and encryption tools easily accessible and easy to use is our best best imho.

falcolasOP9y ago

Given the breadth and intent of these laws, I'd expect a different response - requiring ISPs to block VPN traffic that isn't hitting a whitelisted (i.e. corporate) endpoint.

VPN traffic has a distinctive signature, and ISPs are already using deep packet inspection hardware already, so blocking VPN traffic seems like a natural evolution in this particular arms race.

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