As the UK, Australia, and other countries appear to be introducing ID requirements and banning anonymous access, Russia reveals it has the ability to block VPN access.

  • reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    “Only VPN tunnels that are pre-approved by state authorities will continue to function,” Mazay Banzaev, the Founder of Russia-based Amnezia VPN, told TechRadar in an interview earlier this year."

    What defense is there against this? How do you get around this if it’s implemented?

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      “Obfuscation”, tunneling vpn traffic through harmless-looking https or wss. I use wstunnel, but there are other options.

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      As before, keep on coming up with more sophisticated ways to trick the automatic detection.