supersquirrelFeb 27

Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy

https://sopuli.xyz/post/41795803

Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy - Sopuli

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Show threadSunshineFeb 27
The only way to use VPN with how things are going at this rate is through mail in cash or Monero.
Show threadeleitlFeb 27
With a bit of infrastructure, today you can detect and disrupt any VPN session. This is coming soon to your country, too.
Show threadpankuleczkaplFeb 27
You also can avoid all of these disruptions by camouflaging your packets as some generic protocol, which is already quite easy e.g. in Mullvad by using shadowsocks and ai disruption (randomising, among others, packet size and intervals). In fact, it will always be impossible to detect VPNs without deep packet inspection - and that would require banning ALL internet traffic encryption, which seems unrealistic because of the astronomical downsides, even in today’s political situation.
Show threadeleitlFeb 27
Careful there: doberman.media/…/russia-has-begun-blocking-the-xr…
Russia Has Begun Blocking The XRay/VLESS VPN Protocol. Here’s Why That’s Deeply Alarming - Doberman | Queer Voices: East To West

Russia has started restricting access to the widely used XRay/VLESS VPN protocol.

Doberman | LGBTQ Men’s Magazine
Show threadpankuleczkapl
Yeah, I didn’t know about that, that sounds terrifying. At least I was still right in saying that they cannot block VPNs completely - you can still send traffic through HTTPS or DNS requests, but it is just too slow for most applications, however definitely enough to be able to communicate with other people in times of censorship. Based on my research Russia is also experimenting with CIDR whitelisting, which is even worse but does have the huge drawback of basically breaking the internet except for a few large sites.
Feb 27 at 2:36pmWeb