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Single messages can be hidden in random conversations e.g. by typos or other patterns. But the AI will flag anything that could be used to send more than twitter messages.
If network access is only allowed for bootlocked phones, how would you send those messages but by typing them by hand?
So there will be 10 messages or more for one meaningful message.
That's useful for activists but destroys any ability to organise a movement that needs to recruit followers.
That's all it takes, cryptographic communication is a list of single messages, if you can pass one without being detected you're done.
First of all that is impossible, TCP/IP is an open protocol, you can build your own small computer and connect it to a network. But let's for a moment assume this was possible, you can encrypt/decrypt messages with an offline machine and send them to the online one by any number of means, e.g. Build a QR code and scan it with your phone.
A movement that needs to recruit followers won't encrypt their messages since they need people to be able to read them. They could use public key encryption to ensure that people could send messages to them and they can sign messages, but encrypting the messages is pointless. You only encrypt messages when you trust the other party, otherwise anyone could intercept and encryption is pointless.
You are not a nuclear submarine. You want to communicate.
How, if all ports are blocked but for specific P2P connections?
Your phone is not yours. The excessive use of qr codes will be reported.
Exactly. Without movements there is no need for encryption.
My point was that if you can get one message past the AI scanner you can get any number of them in the same manner.
Port 80/443 would still need to be opened, TCP/IP can be used to do whatever you want.
What is an excessive use? I read a QR code daily when catching the bus to know how long it will take, I use qr codes to login on multiple services because it's convenient and faster than typing my password, lots of ads and other things use qr codes. Plus, that was just one example of an easy way to do this, there are thousands of other ways, moving data between devices is one of the most common things one can do.
No, you're missing the point, encryption is used between known members of a movement, not to recruit or contact the exterior, that would be impossible as no one outside of the movement would understand the messages.
Also there's always need for encryption, you don't want your bank details to be sent unencrypted, and if you're allowing even one encrypted messages you're fucked because any encrypted messages should be (by definition) completely indistinguishable from another similarly encrypted message, that's the whole point of the thing.
That's wrong. Facebook can allow one random url to pass, maybe 20 but not 200. There is no bandwith beyond secret twitter messages.
To preapproved subnets.
There are not. Even QR code readers can be required to scan the content. If it is random crpto bytes, ICE will be informed.
Why would they? Only clear messages that are encryted on their way between liscensed messenger services.