▲ 360 ▼ New US Bill Aims to Block Both Online Adult Content and VPNs (www.cnet.com) submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev 58 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Runaway@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago (1 child) So how to evade a VPN ban? permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago TOR, I2P, tunnel via SSH, any number of techs that tunnel VPN via HTTPS. Wireguard recently released an update to enable VPNs via QUIC. QUIC is the transport layer of HTTP/3. So VPNs would be indistinguishable from HTTPS traffic, unless the filters had the root certificates to decode/intercept the traffic. It's the root certificates that are the weakest spot, IMO. When governments start attacking the globally trusted root certificates, we will be back to the 20th century of word-of-mouth (IE, sharing) root CAs that can actually be trusted, and will need to keep an eye on canary posts or whatever to know when those root CAs have been compromised. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago TOR, I2P, tunnel via SSH, any number of techs that tunnel VPN via HTTPS. Wireguard recently released an update to enable VPNs via QUIC. QUIC is the transport layer of HTTP/3. So VPNs would be indistinguishable from HTTPS traffic, unless the filters had the root certificates to decode/intercept the traffic. It's the root certificates that are the weakest spot, IMO. When governments start attacking the globally trusted root certificates, we will be back to the 20th century of word-of-mouth (IE, sharing) root CAs that can actually be trusted, and will need to keep an eye on canary posts or whatever to know when those root CAs have been compromised. permalink fedilink source parent