You can't hide that you use tor. Only temporarily with bridges. But it's just temporary for weeks or a few months, then they will detect that you have been using tor and then you will go to prison or whatever the punishment is going to be.
The usual ways to detect Tor are
- 1. Monitoring the network traffic for connections to known Tor relays/bridges
- 2. Inspecting the SSL certificate(s) used by the suspected Tor clients
- 3. Portscanning suspected Tor relays for listening connections on standard Tor ports
1 can be fixed care by renting a VPS outside of EU and running a non-public bridge.
2 and 3 can be fixed too by modifying the Tor software and the VPS firewall.
There are quite a few other tricks that can be used to prevent the EU Gestapo from detecting that one is using Tor, but this forum and thread are not the best place to discuss this.
EU has always been leaning towards totalitarianism, but in the recent years things have really gone downhill. Frankly I don't care about China, Russia or any other other totalitarian states. Too bad EU takes example from them.
However I think that blocking Tor and VPN are not their main objectives. Most likely they will just remove physical cash (in fact they are already phasing it out), thus removing all crypto on/off ramps they don't control. Once the cash is gone the totalitarian state will be complete and we will be living in the Fourth Reich.