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>>mmaria+(OP)
Kinda worried they'll just get to work banning consumer VPN use?

>>nemoma+wT
how would that work? Besides blocking the websites to download some VPN. Or if someone already has a VPN installed.

>>nebben+FT
I see you’ve never been anywhere that blocks VPNs.

First they will make it seem like only criminals would use VPNs, then they’ll target some actually shady VPN services to use as a scapegoat, then they’ll apply punitive measures to them specifically; then they will use the fact that they have already used punitive measures as a reason to use them blanketly.

Technically: it’s pretty trivial to block almost all VPNs at an ISP level. I think only anyconnect/openconnect is difficult (not impossible) to block.

That this would affect businesses is of no consequence.

>>dijit+8U
DPI can figure out standard VPNs, including anyconnect, pretty well based on timing and packet sizes.

There are tools designed to evade DPI detection, but even those don't make out out of the Great Firewall of China most of the time.

Technical solutions to political problems only go so far.