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Re:France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi by biafra on Monday December 07, 2015 @04:28PM (#10692851)
Wrong questions. You need to ask: What is the benefit of being able to use Tor? What is the benefit of communicating privately with the help of encryption?
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Re:France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi by rwmj on Monday December 07, 2015 @04:38PM (#10692914)
It affects you even if you never use Tor and never use encryption, because you still have to pay for all that infrastructure. You still have the risk of France becoming a police state. You still have the barriers to entry for new start-ups having to comply with onerous regulations. And you won't even be any safer.
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