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The political answer to circumventing laws is usually some form of punishment. This is often much easier than weird technical solutions.


Indeed. Governments have to worry about 99.9% of cases covered with a law or regulation have punishment in term of fine or imprisonment.

Those remaining very likely have multiple advantages like advance technical knowledge, connection to powerful people in business / governments, money and legal support in case they end up on wrong side of law. There is very little benefit and lot of effort to catch these unless they are running some kind of criminal organization which adversely affects their government/regime.


Is that what happens in this specific case?




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