Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill

BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  WireGuard would be illegal. ISPs would monitor for encrypted traffic streams. All remote workers must now come back to the office. ofcom can see any and all traffic. Your loyalty to the king shall be examined. You choices of media will be scrutinized. The threat of losing your children will be used to force compliance. Welcome to the machine.

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  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Perry much every single website uses HTTPS these days which means all traffic is encrypted anyway. Instead of a VPN you could use an encrypted proxy that connects over HTTPS. I doubt the UK is just going to completely cut itself off from the rest of the world’s internet (because all it takes is one path out).

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  • moseschrute@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can we develop a new VPN protocol where the encrypted traffic is disguised as a 24 hour continuous stream of Never Gonna Give You Up

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    • Cricket@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      RickGuard

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember in Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother (Great read, Free e-book here. they had an insider at the ISP who just encrypted all the traffic that came through, so it just became the “new normal”.

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  • tankplanker@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Work based VPNs would likely have to obtain a license from Ofcom, it would be highly unlikely to block them completely. Probably be requesting a back door into the work VPNs at the same time just like they have for other encryption, lol.

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  • warm@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Tempora already snoops on traffic.

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• Eximius@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Refer to other comment. They don’t see “VPN traffic”, they see encrypted tunnels between two ports to some offshore vps. At best, they see a header saying “openvpn”. The article is alluding to the country wanting to crack down on encrypted tunnels (because you cannot discriminate VPNs from them).

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  • elvith@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    At best, they see a TLS handshake that gets upgraded to an encrypted websocket which hides VPN traffic…

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And make sure to keep videos running 24/7 through said VPN so they don’t know when the packets are interesting vs just YouTube or something

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• Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There will always be a way to bypass laws that do not serve the people.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have a Digital Ocean droplet in Amsterdam, runs OpenVPN server. $6/mo., no one sees my activity, haven’t logged into it in years.

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  • No1@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Netherlands is part of the Nine eyes. They know exactly what your activities are.

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