I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Reminds me of a professor who linked a pirate copy of the text book in his syllabus and warned several times do not attempt to use these sources because doing so is a violation of copyright law! Please purchase the book!

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  • philpo@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I know someone who did that with his own book. Why? The publisher fucked him over in terms of pay. He even corrected a mistake in the original one.

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    • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As a counter to your story, I had one professor who required his students to purchase his own locally produced textbook, which had a new version with different exercises every semester or year, and I guess he made good money off of that because everybody thought he was an asshole for doing it, but he did it anyways.

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I fear that calling them out so obviously it will just push them to target vpns next.

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  • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then Brits can use TOR 😎

    If they block the publicly-accessible nodes too, they can use bridges.

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    • somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hell yeah.

      It’s very hard to block TOR, because it’s an hydra. Block one method, multiple other methods take its place.

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  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Blocking vpns is tricky in a western society because so many companies cannot function without them.

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    • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They wouldn’t block the protocol, just the most common commercial providers. That’s very easily doable.

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Many have tried that, IMO getting the word out about VPNs even to non-technical users is important because most people still don’t know what that is. If they ever try to ban VPNs, even non-technical people will know how to use them and how to avoid the bans.

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  • LilB0kChoy@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’d quickly become a game of whac-a-mole.

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Source? Cause mine (www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50 aka the fucking law) doesn’t say anything like that.

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not who you’re responding to but techlinked called out that it’s illegal as well and showed the legislation text in their video. But if you’re not implementing the ID check in the first place then mentioning vpns doesn’t matter at all. I can’t even get your link to load.

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    • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Section 4.37 of Ofcom’s Guidance on Highly Effective Age Assurance for Part 3 Services:

      In addition, service providers should not publish content on their service that directs or encourages UK users to circumvent the age assurance process or the access controls, for example by providing information about or links to a virtual private network (VPN) which may be used by children to circumvent the relevant processes.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait, what‽

    Source?

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dude trust me. It’s not there anywhere.

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