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The impossibility of banning encrypted communication?
(news.ycombinator.com)
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this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2025
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The same way they prevent you from transmitting any other illegal content: they fine you and/or throw you in jail if they know you're doing it.
It's trivially easy to detect encrypted messages just by measuring the entropy of each message. A messaging provider would just turn you in if they detect it.
You could probably get away with peer-to-peer messaging, but your ISP would be able to detect that you're using unapproved encryption and then turn you in to the government.
Thanks. And fuck this.