A law banning the entire attempt to even crate such laws.

Imho, a Linux phone would help. Banning encryption is only possible because of GAFAM and their tie over "our" devices. Like android phones loosing sideloading. Meanwhile snikket.org would be a very illegal app in such dystopian future.

Switch to mesh networks could be an idea. It is not that difficult to send messages with bluetooth, problem is adoption: a system like that works only if there are many people using it.

Dunno, my perception of Nordic countries has always been that they have (of course, they're human) corruption, they have organized crime and they have all kinds of social rot, but they also have no reservations in admitting having those or barriers at discussing and trying to help those, which was the reason for nicer things in their societies. Though inside that perception Denmark has always been the worst.

Still, it's all dynamics, and of course thinking you're set causes failures.

Russian money laundering is honestly not as big a problem as the degree of penetration of Russian state secret agents, which both inside Russia and outside is beyond what you'd reasonably expect. If you think a 13 years old girl can't be an agent, you're wrong. If you think such agents can't be a common enough thing, you're wrong. If you think it's limited to Russian/ex-USSR nationals and their relatives, you're wrong.

And that's the state of affairs during late USSR, these services haven't become less professional, the world since then was changing fast enough to sharpen them, but also in ways where they always had the resources to survive hardship and learn.

I don't know what the supreme goals of what one can call Russia's deep state are, and whether I would consider them something good or bad, but I'm sure western reactions to their actions are all 10-20 years late.

We’re going to need a sanctioned phone just for banking and another one for everything else. Plus maybe a third one to take to demonstrations etc. Just great :(

That is a problem for future Melroy. Hopefully some apps can just be used in a web app, so just going to their website.

I also read about android virtualization within a container. Basically allowing you to still run android apps but we will see..

I use hardware TAN generators but my bank's app works on LineageOS and GrapheneOS. If my travel service doesn't accept printed out documents then it is not a travel service I will use.

This has not yet happened even in the most authoritarian jurisdictions, with the possible exception of North Korea. The Internet is built with open protocols so any restrictions will have to be implemented on the network edge. There is no vendor locking for on-prem routers in multiple countries. As long as all purpose computers are not illegal you can still use strong encryption and anonymizing services on your end devices on your own network. So any mandatory surveillance and tracking will have no power there.

Such a tech restriction would instantly kill hotspot capability of a phone. Not that I think they corrupt traitors in the EU wouldn't want to try it anyways.

That scrotum is just the current driver, but they're probably referring to some unnamed lobbying group that's been pushing for this for years. I'm not sure the identity of that group was ever revealed.

This is the most recent attempt. iIRC, some previous attempts have been spearheaded by Spanish right wings (crushing Catalan independence movements)