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What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 month ago by BD89@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I know it isn't specific to just Linux but I use Linux anyway so my question is,

Is there a way you could use a VPN without them knowing that? Or if they outlaw them is it really just game over?

If they made VPNs illegal I suppose stuff like TOR would follow except TOR is partly funded by the US state department and the US is one of my countries closest allies (one of the five eyes). So surely they wouldn't shut down something the US funds directly... Would they?

I've read very very little about Gemini and other protocols like Gopher, would this be the way forward if they do this? And is that even remotely close to the security and potential anonymity you would receive from a VPN?

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[–] BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

Can your ISP not tell you're using a VPN?

Would it not be easy for them to block access to VPNs if they outlaw them?

What do you do then?

I guess a better way to phrase the question is if they are outlawed how can I use one without my ISP knowing.

If your ISP can tell you're using a VPN then yes, making them illegal would prevent me from using them right?

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Would it not be easy for them to block access to VPNs if they outlaw them?

Not necessarily. It's reasonably easy to keep long lists of known IP address ranges of known VPN providers and block access to these, but VPN traffic to a not well known IP address is generally impossible to distinguish from perfectly legal encrypted traffic such as a VPN connection to a corporate intranet. (There are also VPN protocols that are made deliberately hard to identify at all.)

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is distinguishable via deep-packet-inspection, China uses this

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

If it just looks like a stream of TLS packets, so the content is encrypted, what would DPI be able to see? I feel like if it could detect it as a VPN, that's just a bug that needs fixing, not an inherent weakness in the protocols involved.

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