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Re:First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might B... by AnthonyMouse on Monday July 10, 2023 @10:54PM (#36675895)
Authoritarian hellholes will make something up when they don't like you, but they'll also spy on everyone to decide who they don't like. At which point anyone attempting to resist them is going to want to get extremely familiar with operational security before they get dead, and a big part of that is things like encryption and steganography.
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Re:First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might B... by Frondo on Monday July 10, 2023 @11:52PM (#36676224)
Encryption will not keep you hidden from an authoritarian government for long, and certainly not for long if you're trying to build a movement with any sort of wide-spread support.
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Re:First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might B... by zirgs on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @03:01AM (#36677380)
Authoritarian hellholes don't have human rights and if they find out that you're using encryption - that's enough for them to arrest you.
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Re:First U.S. Ban on Sale of Cellphone Location Data Might B... by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @04:26PM (#36686773)
Hence steganography.
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