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If I'm not wrong, if you are in a "free" country and you develop a software to help Chinese people bypass the great firewall of China, by international convention your country would have to arrest you and share with China all the data about you and your equipment?

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That's the dismal tradeoff with such things. Anything that can be used to help dissidents can also be used to help organized crime. Cryptocurrency, end-to-end encryption, Tor all ended up with this fate.

That's because from the perspective of an authoritarian state, there is no meaningful difference between political activists and ransomware gangs. Both are dastardly cybercriminals.

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