@dmbaturin@functional.cafe > I fear DPI technologies that governments possess now may be too advanced to make that feasible.
I strongly doubt so.
DPI at best tells them membership in the network, but there are higher-latency mix network options that would prevent them from getting any more information than that even with global observer capacities.
Tor & I2P are very much not best of class (in their current state, they are vulnerable to global observers). What they have instead is a good/numerous userbase and retrocompatibility with low-latency stream-oriented software.
Many countries have no restrictions on encryption and both KOSA & ChatControl can only be enforced on corposcum. Free Software gets around the limitations.
This is annoyingly exactly /why/ we would've needed Gnunet ready a decade ago at minimum.