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.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
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      3 days ago

      Russia got extremely good at deep packet inspection and determining all sorts of protocols.

      Most existing protocols are now blocked for connections outside the country

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      A lot of legitimate connections are affected. There is a whitelist of mostly useless services and Telegram users are being MAX-herded. There currently seems to be no VPN that works reliably, out of the box.