Mastodawn

What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal?

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/45541973

What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal? - SDF Chatter

I know it isn’t specific to just Linux but I use Linux anyway so my question is, Is there a way you could use a VPN without them knowing that? Or if they outlaw them is it really just game over? If they made VPNs illegal I suppose stuff like TOR would follow except TOR is partly funded by the US state department and the US is one of my countries closest allies (one of the five eyes). So surely they wouldn’t shut down something the US funds directly… Would they? I’ve read very very little about Gemini and other protocols like Gopher, would this be the way forward if they do this? And is that even remotely close to the security and potential anonymity you would receive from a VPN?

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joshikyou Nov 13

“Making VPNs illegal” doesn’t stop you from using them.

They would have to implement north korea/iran levels of restrictions in order to prevent you from using VPNs.

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BD89 Nov 13

Can your ISP not tell you’re using a VPN?

Would it not be easy for them to block access to VPNs if they outlaw them?

What do you do then?

I guess a better way to phrase the question is if they are outlawed how can I use one without my ISP knowing.

If your ISP can tell you’re using a VPN then yes, making them illegal would prevent me from using them right?

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CameronDev Nov 13

A VPN wrapped in HTTPS would be basically undetectable. Yes, your ISP could start marking IP addresses as “VPN”, but that would be a wack-a-mole situation, and wouldnt scale at all.

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Random Dent

I can see the UK doing this, they love to implement ludicrously restrictive and impossible to enforce anti-privacy laws. My working theory is that they’re lobbied to implement them by IT consultancy firms, who then get hired to consult on, say, banning VPNs, take 10 years to investigate it at eye-watering cost to the public, then go “Yeah turns out you can’t ban VPNs, I don’t know what the previous government was thinking” and then use that money to lobby the new government to ban encryption or some other nonsense, then repeat.