With a bit of infrastructure, today you can detect and disrupt any VPN session. This is coming soon to your country, too.
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Sunshine@piefed.ca 3 days ago
The only way to use VPN with how things are going at this rate is through mail in cash or Monero.
eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
You also can avoid all of these disruptions by camouflaging your packets as some generic protocol, which is already quite easy e.g. in Mullvad by using shadowsocks and ai disruption (randomising, among others, packet size and intervals). In fact, it will always be impossible to detect VPNs without deep packet inspection - and that would require banning ALL internet traffic encryption, which seems unrealistic because of the astronomical downsides, even in today’s political situation.
eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Careful there: doberman.media/…/russia-has-begun-blocking-the-xr…
pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Yeah, I didn’t know about that, that sounds terrifying. At least I was still right in saying that they cannot block VPNs completely - you can still send traffic through HTTPS or DNS requests, but it is just too slow for most applications, however definitely enough to be able to communicate with other people in times of censorship. Based on my research Russia is also experimenting with CIDR whitelisting, which is even worse but does have the huge drawback of basically breaking the internet except for a few large sites.
hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 days ago
without deep packet inspection
DPI is being used actively in a lot of countries including where I live, sadly
pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The world is going to shit… also, I am asking out of pure curiosity - how does DPI interact with encryption where you live? Is encryption just plain illegal or what?
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Yet another mullvad W