▲ 620 ▼ Federal bill would force VPN providers, ISPs, and DNS services to block foreign piracy sites (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 1 day ago by Mustachius_Grumpius to c/technology@lemmy.world 139 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 16 points 1 day ago (6 children) Why would a Canadian VPN server obey US block lists? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (5 children) It wouldn't, which is why I roll my eyes every time I see a bill demanding what a VPN must do. The only way for them to actually enforce this through VPNs is to block VPNs. Which, presumably, they'll do at some point, but with an exception list for companies paying the right license fee to use a Government Approved VPN. Which, obviously, will be full of security flaws, and likely won't be HIPPA compliant or other compliances etc, etc. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago (2 children) There are ways to obfuscate VPN traffic that's resistant to DPI. It makes it look like normal HTTPS traffic. That will make completely blocking VPNs difficult. I'm sure even more effective obfuscation methods will be developed if VPN blocking becomes widespread. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 point 7 hours ago HTTPS will be banned, unless you install the government CA certs that let them decrypt your traffic. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/you-should-not-trust-russias-new-trusted-root-ca permalink fedilink source parent [–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago Thats a good point. Regardless, technology is too advanced for the lawmakers anyway. Might as well just start enforcing amish policy adoption laws. permalink fedilink source parent [–] saltesc@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 child) So, basically there's the internet, then there's the US internet. People will start moving to China for more freedoms. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yucandu@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago Did you forget about the Great Firewall? Not that even it can defeat VPNs anyway. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (5 children) It wouldn't, which is why I roll my eyes every time I see a bill demanding what a VPN must do. The only way for them to actually enforce this through VPNs is to block VPNs. Which, presumably, they'll do at some point, but with an exception list for companies paying the right license fee to use a Government Approved VPN. Which, obviously, will be full of security flaws, and likely won't be HIPPA compliant or other compliances etc, etc. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago (2 children) There are ways to obfuscate VPN traffic that's resistant to DPI. It makes it look like normal HTTPS traffic. That will make completely blocking VPNs difficult. I'm sure even more effective obfuscation methods will be developed if VPN blocking becomes widespread. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 point 7 hours ago HTTPS will be banned, unless you install the government CA certs that let them decrypt your traffic. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/you-should-not-trust-russias-new-trusted-root-ca permalink fedilink source parent [–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago Thats a good point. Regardless, technology is too advanced for the lawmakers anyway. Might as well just start enforcing amish policy adoption laws. permalink fedilink source parent [–] saltesc@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 child) So, basically there's the internet, then there's the US internet. People will start moving to China for more freedoms. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yucandu@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago Did you forget about the Great Firewall? Not that even it can defeat VPNs anyway. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago (2 children) There are ways to obfuscate VPN traffic that's resistant to DPI. It makes it look like normal HTTPS traffic. That will make completely blocking VPNs difficult. I'm sure even more effective obfuscation methods will be developed if VPN blocking becomes widespread. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 point 7 hours ago HTTPS will be banned, unless you install the government CA certs that let them decrypt your traffic. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/you-should-not-trust-russias-new-trusted-root-ca permalink fedilink source parent [–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago Thats a good point. Regardless, technology is too advanced for the lawmakers anyway. Might as well just start enforcing amish policy adoption laws. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 point 7 hours ago HTTPS will be banned, unless you install the government CA certs that let them decrypt your traffic. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/you-should-not-trust-russias-new-trusted-root-ca permalink fedilink source parent
[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago Thats a good point. Regardless, technology is too advanced for the lawmakers anyway. Might as well just start enforcing amish policy adoption laws. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 child) So, basically there's the internet, then there's the US internet. People will start moving to China for more freedoms. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yucandu@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago Did you forget about the Great Firewall? Not that even it can defeat VPNs anyway. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago Did you forget about the Great Firewall? Not that even it can defeat VPNs anyway. permalink fedilink source parent