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Those rules would only apply to VPN providers in the UK, so the whole mechanism would be pointless. They could start whitelisting money / credit card transfers
by hedora 1y ago
Those rules would only apply to VPN providers in the UK, so the whole mechanism would be pointless.
They could start whitelisting money / credit card transfers, I guess. However, reputable VPN providers already accept envelopes full of cash and crypto, so I guess the UK would need to start reading all international mail, and block crypto.
At that point, people could just use tor to bootstrap the VPN account + payments.
History says teenagers will figure this stuff out before adults (due to infinite free time and infinite bragging rights for knowing how to do it).
- gjsman-1000 1y ago> Those rules would only apply to VPN providers in the UK, so the whole mechanism would be pointless. Did you miss the part where every VPN port is blocked, and all other ports have heuristics in place to detect and throttle VPN-like patterns (e.g. 99%+ of traffic going to less endpoints than you can count on one hand), unless you're specifically whitelisted?
- out_of_protocol 1y ago> Did you miss the part where every VPN port is blocked Many protocols can use https ports and packet envelope. Also, there's special censorship resistant VPN protocols, which work even in China despite its nigh-infinity money to block it via DPI
- joquarky 1y agoYou've never been on a red team.