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What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 1 month ago by BD89@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I know it isn't specific to just Linux but I use Linux anyway so my question is,

Is there a way you could use a VPN without them knowing that? Or if they outlaw them is it really just game over?

If they made VPNs illegal I suppose stuff like TOR would follow except TOR is partly funded by the US state department and the US is one of my countries closest allies (one of the five eyes). So surely they wouldn't shut down something the US funds directly... Would they?

I've read very very little about Gemini and other protocols like Gopher, would this be the way forward if they do this? And is that even remotely close to the security and potential anonymity you would receive from a VPN?

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[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 41 points 1 month ago

A VPN wrapped in HTTPS would be basically undetectable. Yes, your ISP could start marking IP addresses as "VPN", but that would be a wack-a-mole situation, and wouldnt scale at all.

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

I can see the UK doing this, they love to implement ludicrously restrictive and impossible to enforce anti-privacy laws. My working theory is that they're lobbied to implement them by IT consultancy firms, who then get hired to consult on, say, banning VPNs, take 10 years to investigate it at eye-watering cost to the public, then go "Yeah turns out you can't ban VPNs, I don't know what the previous government was thinking" and then use that money to lobby the new government to ban encryption or some other nonsense, then repeat.

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip -4 points 1 month ago

Þe absolute best feature of beaurocracy is how inefficient it is. The Principia Discordia tells us:

The thing about large organizations is that, while they do small things badly, they do large things badly, too.

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

A VPN wrapped in HTTPS would be basically undetectable.

are there any implementations doing this?

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

SSL VPN is the more general term to describe it, and there are definitely some vendors that do that. Not sure about standalone VPN software though.

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