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Like in China, the UK and EU will be banning VPNs and asking ISPs to block their usage. It may not be tomorrow but it will be here nonetheless.

• enriquto 8y ago
  but how can it be done effectively without banning also ssh (which is quite unlikely) ?
  • chopin 8y ago
    But that's not for the masses (if you think of setting up a tunnel). Afaik China drops encrypted traffic intermittently to subvert this approach. And you need to rent out some server elsewhere outside the jurisdiction. One could totally dry out the revenue stream for the hoster.
  • darn2heck 8y ago
    It can't be fully banned. I could envisage an authoritarian government demanding that you register to use ssh for work or whatever purposes. Obviously that doesn't actually prevent a determined individual with some know-how but it can be done effectively enough to bar most users and enable mass-surveillance. They know you can't stop all encryption. One time pads will always work when used correctly. That doesn't matter because they aren't targetting criminals, black-hats, or terrorists. They aren't targetting people that actually have to hide. They are targetting the technologically unaware. I always tell people that this isn't aimed at stopping people that really want to hide, it is about monitoring the majority of the population.