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Ethics aside, how would this be implemented? The article says that ISPs have to "implement blocks", but is it even possible to block VPNs and TOR with deep pack
by drspacemonkey 9y ago
Ethics aside, how would this be implemented? The article says that ISPs have to "implement blocks", but is it even possible to block VPNs and TOR with deep packet inspection? Wouldn't that also hit a lot of false positives for SSL/TLS sites? The article also doesn't mention if there are exceptions to be made for corporate VPNs.
Which leads me to wonder if the next step might be to prohibit SSL/TLS for any site that doesn't have a government-approved certificate. "To make enforcing the VPN ban easier".
- Fej 9y agoChina has spent two decades and still can't beat Tor. Bridges and pluggable transports beat it. What chance does Russia have? (At least, as long as Russia doesn't go completely 1984 and monitor all citizens all the time.)
- pavel_lishin 9y agoThe idea is probably not to prevent proxies, Tor and VPNs, but rather to give the government a tool with which to prosecute those parties it wants prosecuted - which may very well include ISPs as well.
- drspacemonkey 9y agoAh, that makes sense. Make a law that is unenforceable at scale, but can be used to punish individual entities that have pissed off the government in some other way.
- ThrustVectoring 9y agoThis is, in fact, how corruption in Russia generally works. The laws as written are onerous, and then the enforcement arm of the government sets up a market in unofficial permission to flout those laws.