It doesn&#x27;t need to be impossible for Big Brother to win. It just needs to be hard <i>enough</i> that it&#x27;s not worthwhile for the vast majority of citizens.<p>(And both of the things you mentioned are things that would take hours or days to hunt down and figure out for the average internet user. A privacy mechanism that isn&#x27;t really, really easy to use is--in terms of the global internet and its citizens--worthless.)