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What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal?
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Sometimes.
They can keep a record of VPNs and monitor if you connect to their servers, or block that connection altogether.
The problem with this is that new VPNs come and go all the time and active VPNs don't always have static configurations. It would be impossible for them to reliably track all of them.
But if it were illegal as soon as you connected to one single blacklisted IP you'd be fucked, right?
That would be up to the courts to decide.
It's very easy to accidentally connect to an unknown server, so it would depend on your state's criteria for determining guilt.