It would ultimately have similar effects as when most governments banned The Pirate Bay: it stifled grandma from accessing it, but anyone who has any will to do so, or small amount of technical skill will bypass the ban.
Nice try!
There are plenty of free and open source pgp tools out there. Nothing is stopping you from encrypting your own text and pasting it into messaging apps. Even if you dont trust some tool from the internet, sha2 isnt that hard to understand or implement with a bit of motivation
Saddle that sentence and ride it to work as it runs on and on.
To do whatever it takes - I certainly will not comply. No, I don’t care that makes me a criminal. If somebody made it legally mandatory to eat babies, I wouldn’t do that either.
I ignore the ban and continue using my applications which are all open source.
i’ve read that many apps can be not just banned but blocked. now i don’t have a source at hand but i heard that russia blocks not just signal but also matrix, meaning that it doesn’t necessarily matter whether the app is open source. similarly i’ve read that deep packet inspection can block things like sslvpn and wireguard.
still, blocking delta chat is really quite difficult, as russia has noticed and got angry about, so there should probably still be a way unless the country also blocks all email communication
They can block Signal because it is centralized. Signal knows this and built proxies into the app for this purpose.
Similarly they can block the main matrix.org server but since it’s decentralized you can still use any of the thousands of servers they may not even know exists.
Russia’s long term plan seems to be blocking Western networks and force the bulk of domestic users to the Max messenger, which implements inspectability a la ChatControl. Apropos: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
You can tunnel through the Great Chinese Firewall fine, if you know what you’re doing.
They block the ip addresses for the server components of those applications. easily circumvented with a proxy outside of russia. most these communication apps have such proxy support builtin.
The only way ‘apps’ can be banned is if they cut of the internet. soon as you have a data pipe from one end to another you can encrypt whatever you send.
This is why i2p and p2p protocols are so important it makes it infinitely harder to control / ban. you end up having to have a directional whitelist (i.e. you need to only allow outgoing connections from home devices to a specific set of ip), and even then once thats in place… if any of those things allow communication we can push data through them.
i see your point, but i worry that deep packet inspection would still be a major pain in the butt in that case since it may detect your encryption and block it, regardless of the ip you’re trying to talk to
not really an issue. DPI just increases costs for enforcement and is fairly easily worked around at the application layer. annoying to implement a workaround but not hard. this is the issue with most enforcement mechanisms people try to come up with when dealing with systems, they try to prevent anything they dont like ™ and it just ends up costing them more.
in fact iirc i2p basically helps with this problem just by existing already since it inherently generates a steady stream of data.
i got my fingers crossed you’re right! thank you for your kind responses :D
Same here, good luck implementing that ban
Can we switch over android to open source operating system easily?
What about windows on laptops?
I don’t know what you mean, e.g. GrapheneOS and AOSP based ROMs are all open source. Linux (or *BSD) on mobile devices is also an option.
Huh thanks I will have to look into that, not computer savvy here.
Get all my money out of the bank in physical and keep living. Since encryption is dead, internet commerce is dead and keeping any sort of money in digital is now unsecured.
That would be really funny if a bunch of other people realized it at the same time
Oh yeah I was looking from the sidelines back when something like that happened in Argentina with the banks trying to freeze draw-outs. Fun times.
Probably find ways to buy all the advertising profile data I can, sort through it until I find some related to the fools that voted for that, and give it to spammers.
The people that make these laws often have zero idea how anything works beyond “the lobbyist said do this, so I do this.” So they should be educated about their poor decisions.
The government banned pirating media. That hasn’t exactly stopped the tech savvy from doing it anyway.
hasn’t even stopped the non-tech savvy lmao
Start speaking a dead language. Or just use genz language. Can you skibidi that for me?
Ah, here we have the sigma rizzler, frfr no cap.
Manual encryption.
I have a few tools in backup and installed on my devices in case that happens.
Use them illegally.
PGP
