On 2020-07-16 08:17, jim bell wrote:

Decrypt: US government is getting serious about tracking crypto. https://decrypt.co/?p=35585

Ssh is widely used by everyone. You use it for remote file managers like Filezilla, for git, and to control every server on the cloud. So, they cannot track it because too many false positives. If you are running a little club plotting to overthrow the state, you create a pile of documents only accessible to people who have secret keys that you have told your server to accept, and a webserver only accessible through ssh port forwarding, and the government can track it all they like, but it is indistinguishable from a thousand servers keeping business related information private. You can do a private vpn that passes information through the great Chinese firewall over ssh. The chinese cannot stop ssh, because too many people need it and use it. What they do instead is put state sponsored malware on people's computers, which is detectable. They have to expose their attack, making possible defensive measures.