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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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They probably won't bother actually enforcing a ban against you and a buddy using PGP by hand. What they don't want is normies encrypting everything so they lose the ability to casually spy on the masses. At the point at which they care enough about you personally to notice you're using PGP, you've already "committed suicide."