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I'd like to believe that this means that these three pieces of software actually work and that someone in high office has decided that that is unacceptable.
Paranoid authoritarians really do not like ordinary people having access to secure communications and personal privacy. That might be an avenue they can use to organise and elect someone who isn't a paranoid authoritarian, and that won't do.
On the other hand, these pieces of software might already be compromised and this is all an elaborate double-bluff.
In which case it's time for a few well placed communications over purportedly secure channels that would be guaranteed to generate an authoritarian response. Which they'll then have to pretend they didn't read until it's too late.
I'm talking organising - horrors - peaceful protests. They really don't like those. They have to use their brains, or someone else's, in order to find a good excuse to stick the boot in.
full disk encryption and VPNs wont do anything if the OS just starts snitching on you anyways...