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		pavel_lishin on Dec 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SOPA Opponents May Go Nuclear How do you trivially decide what's an encrypted file, and what's simply a highly compressed gzip archive?

zachsnow on Dec 31, 2011 | [–]

You err on the side of "it's encrypted, and you're under arrest." False positives aren't the "bad guy's" concern.

Not particularly serious. A little maybe.

ThaddeusQuay2 on Dec 31, 2011 | [–]

In such a situation, the upcoming SOGA (Stop Online Gzips Act) shall provide a reliable decidability methodology.

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