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I foresee a lot of VPN companies starting to offer "secure proxy" services or something like that. "It's not a VPN, it's a secure proxy!"
by antonvs 9mo ago
I foresee a lot of VPN companies starting to offer "secure proxy" services or something like that. "It's not a VPN, it's a secure proxy!"
- advisedwang 9mo agoThe law doesn't work like that. First of all, the actual regulation that gets made probably has a definition of VPN and won't rely on a company self-describing as VPN. Secondly law enforcement and courts aren't idiots* * well, many of them are. But not in the particular way that would be needed for a simple rename to work.
- guerrilla 9mo agoProxies aren't VPNs though. They didn't mean call proxies VPNS, they meant provide proxies.
- advisedwang 9mo agoTrue if you are being technically rigorous. However the "VPN" services being targeted are already what would be more accurately described as a "secure proxy". So whatever regulation gets drafted will certainly be done so to cover "secure proxies", even if it uses the term "VPN".