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UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill (www.birminghammail.co.uk)
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Prominent backbench MP Sarah Champion launched a campaign against VPNs previously, saying: “My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.

"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.” And the Labour Party said there were “gaps” in the bill that needed to be amended.

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[–] derpgon@programming.dev 15 points 4 days ago (15 children)

I mean anyone can rent a server in Europe and install OpenVPN themselves. Hell, it doesn't even need to open OpenVPN, Wireguard works just as well and is basically undetectable.

Eat shit, UK government, for real. Idiots think that by speaking the same language as US fascists they can have similarly dumb ideas.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

wireguard is not undetectable, even wireshark has a simple way to identify it, but there are more accurate ways

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wouldn't it be detected via initial connection only? WG does not send packets while connected, does it?

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

update: I think not only the handshake packets contain a recognizable pattern. look at "Subsequent Messages: Exchange of Data Packets"

https://www.wireguard.com/protocol/

especially if the receiver/sender_index and the counter are what I think they are.

also have a look at this page: https://www.wireguard.com/known-limitations/

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