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9 months ago by An Original Thought to c/todayilearned

And if the US congress gets its way, this might be a route to secure communication after they ban VPNs

fratermus 7 points 9 months ago

this might be a route to secure communication after they ban VPNs

might also be an excellent time to familiarize oneself with ssh tunneling

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anoriginalthought 3 points 9 months ago

Might need a few hops if they coordinate with the EU but it could be done.

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Cyberflunk 2 points 9 months ago

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lankydryness 2 points 9 months ago

I don’t know how they would effectively ban VPNs. Especially since they have so many use-cases in the business world. Have two offices you want to connect together? VPN. Want remote work employees to access company assets? VPN.

Not sure how they’d ban specific usecases of VPNs

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anoriginalthought 5 points 9 months ago

Specifically they'd go after commercially available VPN's used for privacy and anonymity, not in-house jobs done by companies. Taylor Lorenz had a piece on this recently.

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lankydryness 2 points 9 months ago

So like, just banning VPN provider companies? e.g. NordVPN and the like?

Seems silly to me, yea sure that would probably cut out some people. But if you’re determined enough it’s not hard to go rent a cheap VPS and roll your own VPN using wireguard.

Idk, just seems messy

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reagansrottencorpse 1 point 9 months ago

Could I just buy several years of VPN? Or do they block it somehow from use.

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anoriginalthought 2 points 9 months ago

What I'd assume they would do with minimal information is have an agent purchase a subscription at an intermediary country and block all known servers at the ISP level by constantly switching and logging. This is just off the top of my head though.

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