Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨schizoidman@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

The UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, has told TechRadar that it’s using an unnamed third-party tool to monitor VPN use in the UK.

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ski11erboi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Can anyone ELI5? From what I’m understanding all this does is give them an idea how many people are using VPNs? If that’s all why is using AI necessary?

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- floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Since they give no indication of how they’re doing it or what information they’re gathering, no one can really explain. It may be some kind of traffic analysis where an AI provides heuristic recognition of probable VPN traffic.
  
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  - exu@feditown.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It’s trivial to find most VPN traffic by looking at some packets. No idea why they need AI
    
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- defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  mullvad.net/en/vpn/daita
  
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nosuchanon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’m guessing that third-party provider is Palantir or the NSA.

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