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until they start throttling encrypted traffic systematically
by make3 10y ago
until they start throttling encrypted traffic systematically
- tzakrajs 10y agoThat's all fine an idea until people use steganography to hide encrypted messages in plain sight.
- Forbo 10y agoGood luck scaling that. Things like DesuDesuTalk have pretty limited adoption for a reason.
- tzakrajs 10y agoUsing jpg or other images is one method, but I imagine that you can use steganography in a variety of mediums. The only constraint is that the eavesdropper must not know that the cipher text is inside of the metaphorical plain text, otherwise you are throttled. In other words, the secret must have the same heuristics as any plain text. Can you fool the sensor that detects ciphertext? Great -- no throttle for you!
- chocolatebunny 10y agoThat would piss off all big businesses that have remote workers that have to VPN to their networks.
- cmurf 10y agoBusiness level service would permit and not throttle VPN. For consumer products, it will (probably) be an add-on. Whether they block or throttle or do both, is a market opportunity each ISP will decide.
- orthecreedence 10y agoCurious: if you're an ISP, how do you tell the difference between me VPNing into my Big Tech, Inc. and me VPNing into Private VPN, Inc?
- cmurf 10y agoNot necessary (and presumably not possible). Each end point pays extra for VPN.