At best that’s just unclear. Blocking VPNs isn’t impossible, just impractical.
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merde@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
sounds feasible except the “blocking the use of vpn apps” part?
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
new_guy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, this left a bad taste.
At least he revoked this section of the decision a couple hours later.
suction@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why? VPN is not a magic bullet. Wait, did you believe their marketing??
merde@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
can you elaborate?
as it is, your comment is not comprehensible. Whose marketing? Marketing for VPN? “Magic bullet” for what purpose?
suction@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
VPNs can be blocked by governments or worse, the data can be decrypted.
merde@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
TOR, you write. How are they going to block TOR?
when a government blocks one vpn server, another sprouts in its place. Not like some governments aren’t trying. Yes, they “give trouble” to some people in some places for VPN or TOR use but that may be preferable to those people compared to what they may have to go through if their connection wasn’t encrypted.
here the question was about blocking VPNetworks to prevent Xitter use and that sounded implausible (the judge also have understood this afterwards).
VPNs can be blocked by governments or worse, the data can be decrypted giving you a false sense of security.
How would they decrypt this data without having access to the VPN server itself (or probably your device)?
el_hache@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He went back on that part (in Portuguese):
…com.br/…/moraes-mantem-suspensao-do-x-mas-recua-…