After all, how else to explain the BPI's contention (in the leaked secret status update) that MI5 may be responsible for the opposition to its plans to undermine Britain's global IT competitiveness, the rule of law, free speech and innovation (MI5 is said to be worried that monitoring online activity will get harder when people take up tools to evade copyright enforcement)?
They are using a variety of tools to evade government filters and to reach the wide-open Web that the Chinese government deems dangerous sites like YouTube, Facebook and, if Google makes good on its threat to withdraw from China, Google.cn.cn
"It sets a precedent that a president can, without regard to an actual existence of an emergency, use this tool to evade the normal democratic process and fund projects on his own," he added.
Attracting millions of users worldwide – 12.9 million people had registered to use the service by 2004, and by 2011 that figure had reached more than 600 million – Skype's reputation for privacy and security led to it being adopted by journalists and activists as a tool to evade government surveillance.
The declaration "sets a precedent that a president can, without regard to an actual existence of an emergency, use this tool to evade the normal democratic process and fund projects on his own," William Banks, a law professor at Syracuse University, said to the New York Times.
The Department of Justice has begun a criminal investigation into Uber Technologies Inc.'s use of its Greyball software tool to evade regulators.
After all, it's difficult to effectively block access to a website; users can easily shift to proxy servers or tools like Tor to evade the firewalls.
They are, however, pretty poor tools with which to evade taxes or hide funds from the authorities because they are subject to very significant disclosure obligations and ongoing scrutiny.
He perfected the escape hatch, the underground tunnel and the trap door — all tools he used to evade law enforcement during his years on the run, which ended with an arrest in 2014.
Present-day officials, journalists and tech execs should take their cue from Cohen but go further, seeking to provide platforms outside Iran for dissidents to speak out and supply accurate information to those inside Iran about both the protests and the costs of the regime's policies, along with the technical tools Iranians need to evade censorship and surveillance.
China's internet police have cracked down yet further on the country's citizens — not only banning many of the internet's biggest services, but blocking the tools that allow people to evade internet censorship.
