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Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried (www.techradar.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I believe China does statistical analysis to do stuff like detecting and blocking VPNs, suspicious looking ssh traffic, etc from home Internet connections not going to an approved business. It's my understanding it's very hard to get around the GFW at the moment, and pretty complex stuff is needed to mask VPN traffic to make it look normal (Project X, Xray, Reality, etc).

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    Yeah, I read about some of the tightening at the time and I'm not disputing that there are technical ways of... you know, making your country's Internet a mostly separate bubble for non-techie users.

    The point is it's both hard and extremely invasive to get there. You can't just wish upon a star for VPNs to not be used for a particular application without going to those extremes. Especially if the thing you're trying to prevent is people watching Superman two weeks early or wanking to a mainstream porn page.

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