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		jellykid on Aug 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Danish government will shut down encrypted messagi... Are they going to block binary files from being transferred? Maybe block images? It's an impossible task if someone really knows what they are doing.

ryandvm on Aug 26, 2024 [–]

Absolutely. Metadata notwithstanding, highly encrypted payloads and highly compressed payloads should theoretically be almost indistinguishable from each other as both operations have a technical side-effect of extremely high data entropy.

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