Ask HN: If you lived in China, how would you go around surveillance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21944552

by zabana • 7 years ago

4 6 7 years ago

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This would make for a really cool cyberpunk plot

JacobRiggs• 7 years ago

I'd leave.

haecceity• 7 years ago

VPN and TLS ought to be sufficient. Sunglasses maybe?

stuqqq• 7 years ago

Basically pretend to be a mindless cooperative citizen and say nothing in public and only be the true self in front of family and friends in private.

978e4721a• 7 years ago

Wouldn't bother me. Privacy should be reserved to your home.

Nextgrid• 7 years ago

I would blend in with the crowd while doing my best to make enough money to escape. There's no point taking any risks in a jurisdiction that doesn't even understand basic human rights, and you ain't fixing that either, at least not from the inside.

pmdulaney• 7 years ago

The authors of #1 see the solution as "obfuscation". I think they're on to something important, especially when the entity seeking the information isn't just a business wanting to grab what they can get away with, but rather a repressive state who will punish resistance.

So I guess I would put it this way: Seek to reduce the signal to noise in the information gathered about you.

#1 https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-fantasy-of-opting-out...

Ask HN: If you lived in China, how would you go around surveillance?

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