In Soviet Russia Reading doesn't punish YOU! Punishable are only posting, hosting and refusing to filter. Posters should care of their security theirselves, be it disabling of JavaScript or booting a specially crafted anonymous Linux. Webhosting does not need Javascript or browsers. Refusing to filter is ISP crime, not bloggers, and I have a sincere hope that earlier or later the loss of reputation will be less than fines for non-filtering.

And BTW. The earlier the FSB catches all the young Nazi fools for posting a hate speech and they are sentenced to broom the streets - the earlier the Internet security practices will become mainstream. Darwin rulez.

Just for this problem, long-range cordless phones exist. My personal record was a 30+ kilometer modem link installed with a Senao 868R and pair of Zyxel modems. I knew some criminals who walked with Pauperous (highly illegal high power cordless phones).

When I say "reasonably secure" it means that I personally read it's whitepaper and tried to value it's security personally. And I see some methods that can be employed to breach the anonymity of system implemented according to this whitepaper. They exist but they require a disproportional amount of sniffers. The giant NSA/KGB datacenter that diverts and sniffs all the backbone traffic is just not enough. And since the system is totally encrypted and inherently immune to MITM then many popular deanonimization methods will fail, too.

And I look at such systems from deanonymization point of view only since the end to end encryption is trivial now.

A single compromised exit node is enough to breach the anonymity of the user. After this, everything that he writes under a nickname can be attributed to him.

Look at CJDNS. It's fast, simple and reasonably secure. While it doesn't officially provide anonymity, it's IMHO difficult enough to breach it's anonymity without disproportional waste of sniffing equipment. The NSA or KGB sniffers on backbone just aren't enough.

You are not right. Severity of Soviet laws is compensated with non-necessity of their fulfillments. There are lots of laws requiring ISP to filter. But the ISP are commercial organizations and they understand that filtering undermines their business, with all consequences of it. Also, they will not filter VPN, TOR and other similar protocols unless required by (nonexistent for now) law.

The UK state of affirs is much more serious.

No. You can just incarcerate and torture the rebel leaders out of existence (it's being done in Russia now). The result will be a leaderless rebellion only (again as in Russia where every fact of rape or murder causes immediate riot). Disclaimer (and hint): I do NOT indicate ethnicity and faith of rapists and murderers since it is punishable.

The logical consequence will be a rebellion that cannot be stopped because everybody who might represent it is incarcerated.

And you cannot use all the phone and Internet interception because displeasure against said rapists and murdered is so commonplace that you cannot find rebels in crowds of displeasured people.

We just talk about different things. You mentioned SECURITY updates. Not bug corrections, not feature requests - SECURUTY updates. And when I answered that security updates are quite rare thing if you use an Operating System - you changed the theme to feature requests (you need Webmail and smartphone sync).

In Soviet Russia, it is not named OS. We name it "a graphically decorated cheap shell (or bootloader) with a strong smell of mice". You understand.

JFYI: Long time ago I worked with (then) top secret information in some Soviet scientific institution (Disclaimer: This info is a GPS coordinates and is not secret anymore). I have found that a fraudster pseudo-scientist successfully used the top secret status to cover his activity from scientific community and to milk the Russian military-industrial complex with his pseudoscientific activities.

I cannot believe that similar over-secrecy with similar results cannot happen everywhere, including US.

Once upon a time I worked with a company whose competitors had an influence in SORM system (the Russian phone interception system for investigation). Of course, all our clients came to them. We became happy only after our boss began working from home and secretly rented a phone line from his neighbor.

Now imagine how much YOUR economy loses due to leaks of your secret info to competitors via bribed agents of 3-letters. No wonder that your free country is no more free.

Mne chto, pokryt' tebya russkim matom, chtoby ubedit' v obratnom? I know about LG Smart TV. I simply don't watch TV since there is pro-Putin propaganda and stupid serials specially crafted to make Putin's electorate more controllable. The only satisfactory channel is "Kultura".

Soviet anecdote: Pet'ka comes to Chapaev (Chapaev was a famous Red commander during Civil war and a hero of lots of anecdotes).
Chapaev: Pet'ka, why haven't you ironed your uniform?
Pet'ka: This morning I turned on my radio and could receive nothing except translation of XXV Congress of Communist Party of the Soviet Union. I tried a TV and there was the Congress too. And I was afraid to turn on an iron.

Hope you understand how we Russians love a TV.

And the last. THEY will NOT monitor what I watch. If everything goes OK and our TV becomes at least as good as during Soviet era, with education programs, good cartoons for children a.s.o., I would watch it with DVB-2 receiver which never reports anything. If not, I'll watch P2P downloads which shall be untraceable due to efforts of your *AA to suppress everything traceable. Really, they are untraceable already.

"The security updates are for the server itself. If you think its ok to run a mail server and not be paying attention to security updates. Well ... "Throw away this beleif." :)"

Yes, I do according to security _advisories_ for my system which I check regularly. The last time I did so was 10 years ago. If YOUR server needs security updates more often - maybe it's executable has .exe extension?

You don't live in a country where normal is punishable.

Security by obscurity is never a good thing. Basically, if you think that your door will never be kicked down because THEY don't know about your belongings - you are wrong. Your door should never be kicked down because it's strong enough. And while they kick you should have enough time either to shoot or to exfiltrate.

You live in your cardboard and sheetrock cabins - and think it's normal. The normal building is at least wooden one where you need a chainsaw to enter. Here in Russia the Police needs about a hour and a grinding machine to enter an apartment against owner's will.