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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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Maybe I'm missing the point (or a joke) but could you explain how this will save us from governmental monitoring?
Do you really think that they still are monitoring an paleolitic, forgotten since almost 50 years (1971), pre-internet command line protocol, like Finger, transmitted with a Ping not even over web? They have enough with monitoring high tech steganographic encrypted chats and socialnet, I2P and TOR network. It's something like a knock on the door, asking if someone is at home, serve for short text messages Often the best hideout is a plain sight,
Type in your command line
finger zerush@happynetbox.com