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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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[–] pieman@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think they will ban vpns but as this article hints at, more regulation

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So SSH tunneling it is

That is until encryption is outlawed altogether making the internet truly a horrible place to be

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[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Just for the UK, the rest of the world can still have their own internet with encryption.

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[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

That is until encryption is outlawed

Like all things that are prohibited it will just go underground.

So long as two computers are able to talk to one an other it will be possible to encrypt that traffic>

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago*

Oh of course but the problem is that it still has to pass through routers that, if they can't understand the package content, will block / report/ whatever is needed. Now, I know I can still hide encrypted stuff in plain sight, but it would wreck open protocols like SSH

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[–] pieman@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 year ago

I think that would look like implementing backdoors, which is of course an effective end to encryption. I have thought of how Steganography could be used to hide the a message and hide the fact your using encryption. I would imagine this would only be useful for messaging purposes however.

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