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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by ENOTTY on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:48AM (#24078437)
Two points:

1. TLS is not the impenetrable black box it is made out to be. Every year there are about three papers published at the top tier computer security conferences about identifying applications within TLS. Check out the NDSS proceedings.

2. The EO prohibits conspiracies to evade the ban. This means anyone caught knowingly helping to evade the prohibitions would be subject to legal penalties.

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by gpm on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:53AM (#24078474)
1. Yes - but a law requiring US carries to perform cutting edge research to detect who you're talking to is... unlikely. It's also much more likely to violate the constitution than a law prohibiting trade.

2. Sure, but the entities involved in evading the ban wouldn't be US entities.

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