Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Isn’t this currently what Russia is trying to do with their internet?
Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Isn’t this currently what Russia is trying to do with their internet?
Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It's something russia has been doing for a decade and got pretty good at.
A long term blanket vpn ban is not compatible with a modern digital infrastructure, but with certain protocols (openvpn, wireguard) they can detect their usage and filter them out when necessary.
It does require a lot of expensive DPI (deep packet inspection) hardware I'm not sure UK has, so building a Great Firewall of Britain (Hadrian's Firewall?) will take some time.
allywilson@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Just to add that Hadrian’s Firewall used to exist/does exist, I think. It was located in BT’s main POP in Newcastle.
Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
All good names are taken :<