Comment by AnthonyMouse

> Sure, that’s why saying things like Tianmen square - over voice audio - in a game with an encrypted connection to the server gets everyone’s connections in China severed, even when the game servers are in another country and the game company has nothing to do with it.

You're describing something that seems like an urban legend/coincidence. What technical means are you suggesting they're using to determine the contents of a voice chat over an encrypted connection?

> And knowing all the people taking the ‘totally secret’ backdoor is not even a complex trick.

That's assuming it can be distinguished from ordinary traffic.

If your device goes direct when you want to read the Wikipedia article on the Streisand Effect but you also have a browser that proxies traffic through a random AWS VPS in Virginia when you want to read about something they don't want you to know, how are they supposed to tell that the latter is that and not just a regular arbitrary third party webserver?

> Folks like the NSA in the US have to stay in the shadows, and have a tiny budget and population to draw experts from. What do you think happens when they get to be direct, obnoxious, AND somewhat public in a national pride kind of way?

It becomes easier to find way to thwart what they're doing because any random device can be used to determine if or how something is being blocked instead of only the devices of high-risk people who can't afford to test the fences.