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by aspensmonster 4740 days ago
And this is why technical solutions on their own are not enough. They'll just keep restricting and banning technologies they feel are too dangerous to their interests, whether by the legislature or the courts or by hitting up the payment processors themselves. Whether it's ITAR or SOPA or PIPA or ACTA or TPP, the net effect is the same.

Political action must be taken. All of the forward secrecy and TLS and onion routing and steganography and PGP and AES in the world counts for nothing if they'll just declare such technologies illegal and harass the users.

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This is why the key is to make these types of services ubiquitous..... if everyone is using them for everything, then it becomes more difficult to infer anything from their use.
You can't infer anything from VPN use, and it's one of the most ubiquitous communications-security tools already.
You can infer a great deal with VPN usage combined with other things, this is what risk assessment is all about.
Agreed AspensMonster, we need to support politicians who support our liberties.