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    21 hours ago

    Good news, we closed that pesky loophole by banning encryption without backdoors.

    If they can’t decode it, you better be ready to explain exactly what those bytes were!

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      12 hours ago

      Check out my cool new protocol that looks just like I am loading a webpage about cat facts, which is actually a hidden VPN that I use to secretly look at webpages about cat facts.

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        9 hours ago

        There is actually a technique called steganography, that does exactly that. It is used to hide arbitrary binary info inside images, while still fooling your eyes into thinking there is nothing sketchy there.

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          51 minutes ago

          Can’t it be detected? I imagine ML could be used to automate to some extent.

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          I know! Nothing about all this is new.

          The only new thing is that the UK government is about to learn about those things.

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      Even if they go that route, and frankly I think they would get lynched before we got to that point, they can’t monitor every single connection. That just way too much traffic.

      That’s why China has a firewall, because that’s the best option they can come up with because monitoring every Chinese persons data is an impossible task. Their only option would be to go North Korea route, and just close the internet but that would basically end their economy.

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        52 minutes ago

        Why do you think the telecoms got away with stalling upgrades and fiber roll outs for so long?