An apt comparison
In mainland China they banned direct access to the tor network. So the fine folks at tor developed and deployed bridges, then the Chinese gov got all the public accessed addresses of the bridges and blocked them. Tor now allows private bridges. The government blocked traffic that looked like tor traffic, so the tor project brought out "plug able transports" to make the traffic look like Skype data or whatever you wanted and developed obfsproxy to disguise the fact you were connecting to a bridge.
What can we learn from this? Necessity is the mother of invention, and while there are technically skilled people, there will be people who work for freedom. You can take option a, but great minds will have options bcdef in the bag already.
Glad I left the UK, looks like it's turning into a gulag.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
