I ignore the ban and continue using my applications which are all open source.

Get all my money out of the bank in physical and keep living. Since encryption is dead, internet commerce is dead and keeping any sort of money in digital is now unsecured.

Use them illegally.

The government banned pirating media. That hasn’t exactly stopped the tech savvy from doing it anyway.

Probably find ways to buy all the advertising profile data I can, sort through it until I find some related to the fools that voted for that, and give it to spammers.

The people that make these laws often have zero idea how anything works beyond “the lobbyist said do this, so I do this.” So they should be educated about their poor decisions.

Manual encryption.

I have a few tools in backup and installed on my devices in case that happens.

Flood all communication channels with constant AI bullshit.

I have the knowledge to get around their bullshit and do it the hard way.

Would switch to self-hosted matrix and persuade as many family members and friends to do the same, using my server if they want.

There is nothing stopping encrypted data through an unencrypted channel, so suppose a communication application has an API that allows another application to send and read files through it, that application could potentially encrypt a given piece of text or file and send it through the communication application. Only to be decrypted at the other end by a similar secondary encryption application. Yes, that’s two applications instead of one, but the communication one would never need to be opened.

Stop talking to people altogether. It’s not like my mental health can get much worse anyway.

PGP

Keep… using it? How are they going to enforce this?

Worst case scenario, and they somehow manage to remove access to every encrypted chat application in every store (including f-droid) and every repos of every distribution everywhere; and shut down every server in my country; and get telecoms to block every port of every secure chat client; I’ve got VPSes outside my country, and VPN configured. I’d probably build my own encrypted chat - centralized server hosted on my VPS - with PK E2E encryption.

For a big, public chat app, the bar is higher. For my family and friends, something I hacked together would be good enough. As long as encryption is done in the client, hiding metadata (who’s talking to who) isn’t important for my use (we’re all family & friends). Chat is the most trivial of applications to build; it only starts getting complex when you want it to be serverless, or anonymous, or have PFS. Securing popular servers (attractive targets) makes things harder; being popular makes things harder.

Probably best investment now would be a ton of thumb drives. Thumbernet will be big.