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This doesn't seem like a problem with a technical solution. If he slips up and gets caught, that alone might be enough to send him into a Xinjiang concentration
by 07d046 8y ago
This doesn't seem like a problem with a technical solution. If he slips up and gets caught, that alone might be enough to send him into a Xinjiang concentration camp.
Some of my libertarian tech friends like the idea of more encryption and decentralisation to resist what they perceive as increasingly oppressive governments, but I'm confident that this tech-first approach can never work. A truly oppressive government can easily outlaw these things and identify the users, and they'll be the first to disappear.
- acct1771 8y agoThis has already begun.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoThere's already laws popping up left and right that you get x years in jail (or are just detained indefinitely) if you don't unlock your digital devices or hard drives. The logic being if you have nothing to hide, etc. It's a direct violation of the self-incriminating constitution thing, but there's lots of attempts to talk around that one.