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What's out options if they do ban VPNs? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 weeks ago by starlight@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ca
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With a lot of talk from governments around the world trying to either ban or restrict VPNs, I'm curious to know what are our options if they follow through? I know we can use the Tor network, but is there other options? I assume we could self-host our VPN since I don't think it would be affected by a possible ban. Is there a less tech-savvy option I'm not aware of? I'm just trying to understand all of my options just in case a ban does happen.

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[-] danh2os@piefed.social 18 points 3 weeks ago

It's all talk. VPN is a critical business security feature. Corporate security would be at risk. Ignore this crap.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago

I hear you but whats to stop them from banning foreign vpns?

[-] danh2os@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Foreign business users need to work too?

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

im not sure if enterprise interconnects would be banned. So as long as the business has has a local office or endpoint for the vpn they should be able to connect to the enterprise from that without it strictly being a vpn.

[-] danh2os@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Zero Trust changed the conversation.

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Government security would be too. They would undoubtedly give themselves an exception, but it shows how little the people suggesting it understands how the modern world operates

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 0 points 3 weeks ago

It would be fairly trivial to allow VPNs for businesses and government institutions, but ban them for regular users.

[-] danh2os@piefed.social 7 points 3 weeks ago

It would not be trivial to tell between business and non-business hosts.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Like in china, with a govt. rat in each company?

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

They'd love that, yeah.

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