「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agoAre physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to surveil everyone? (Is it practial?)message-squaremessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up170arrow-down1message-squareAre physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to surveil everyone? (Is it practial?)「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agomessage-square33fedilinkfile-text
minus-square「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoGDR is one tiny country. Imagine every Chinese or every Indian started writing physical mail.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoI mean, GDR is one tiny country but that goes for both sides of the equation. China would be able to surveil mail with the full resources of the Chinese government.
minus-squareICCrawler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoAt 3 billion people, I imagine paper companies would be jumping for joy. But yeah, that sounds like it’d be a bastard to surveil.
minus-squareRaivoKulli@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoGDR is one tiny country so their surveillance apparatus was smaller too. China is big so they can have a bigger apparatus.
minus-squareZwuzelmaus@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoIn a large country, the percentage of mail that crosses their border is much lower than in a small country.
GDR is one tiny country.
Imagine every Chinese or every Indian started writing physical mail.
I mean, GDR is one tiny country but that goes for both sides of the equation. China would be able to surveil mail with the full resources of the Chinese government.
At 3 billion people, I imagine paper companies would be jumping for joy.
But yeah, that sounds like it’d be a bastard to surveil.
GDR is one tiny country so their surveillance apparatus was smaller too. China is big so they can have a bigger apparatus.
In a large country, the percentage of mail that crosses their border is much lower than in a small country.