nixCraft 🐧Jul 28, 2025

VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in https://archive.is/GWdx5

No shit, Sherlock!

Show threadnixCraft 🐧

incoming ban on VPN 3..2….1

Or worse every VPN user needs a KYC 🤔

Jul 28, 2025 at 5:37pmWeb
Show threadWGJul 28, 2025
@nixCraft I assume you do not mean Know Your Customer/Client. Clue please what KYC means in this situation.
Show threadnixCraft 🐧Jul 28, 2025
@wgarmil https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
Know your customer - Wikipedia

Show threadWGJul 28, 2025
@nixCraft Oh... the instances of KYC I have encountered in computer programming revolve around requirements gathering, know what the customer (user) actually needs us to implement and test that works in a specific way. I didn't think about it from a financial standpoint and anti-laundering.
Show threadRześkiJul 28, 2025
@wgarmil @nixCraft KYC is already in place in British telecoms - if you want to purchase a phone number in the UK (e.g. in Twilio), you need to fill out KYC data with regards to identity and address
Show threadKantorJul 28, 2025
@nixCraft yeah, good luck banning VPNs without whitelisting the whole Net. Russia and China are leagues ahead and even they can't beat it yet.
Show threadnickaposJul 28, 2025
@nixCraft that will cause major issues. All enterprises use vpn
Show threadCadenJul 28, 2025
@nixCraft even if that happens, it's still not too hard to setup a Wireguard or better yet AmneziaWG VPN on a VPS for anyone with some networking knowledge. Although it's clearly less convenient, and definitely out of reach for the masses
AmneziaWG | Amnezia Docs

AmneziaWG is a fork of [WireGuard-Go], inheriting the architectural simplicity and high performance of the original implementation, but eliminating the identifiable network signatures that make WireGuard easily detectable by Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) systems.

Show threadChris PittsJul 28, 2025
@nixCraft Ban on mathematics incoming? 🤔😉
Show threadChris PittsJul 28, 2025

@nixCraft Wouldn’t it be a shame if someone put together a bunch of Ansible scripts that spun up your own almost untraceable VPN in the cloud? 🤔
Oh look. Oops…
https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

Or maybe they’ll insist on KYC verification for SSH? 😁#sshTunnelling

GitHub - trailofbits/algo: Set up a personal VPN in the cloud

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