I think that’s naive. China can just arrest you for using encryption.
Same result.
(This isn’t limited to China - the US could have similar results with slightly differing laws)
Same result.
(This isn’t limited to China - the US could have similar results with slightly differing laws)
Unlike the burden required to hide gigs required for large file transactions, hiding mere hundreds of bytes for textual conversations might be feasible. Maybe. Distribution of participating client software might be the problem.
Basically, the point is to make it so it is impossible to tell the difference between a normal user and a crypto user.
So the only way they could target you is if they target 1 billion other people in the world.
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The point of encryption and plausible deniability, is to force everyone to use encryption, so that if authoritarian regimes want to punish people, then they have to screw over everyone, including completely innocent internet users.