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Malicious Compliance

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I fear that calling them out so obviously it will just push them to target vpns next.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then Brits can use TOR 😎

If they block the publicly-accessible nodes too, they can use bridges.

[–] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hell yeah.

It's very hard to block TOR, because it's an hydra. Block one method, multiple other methods take its place.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago

Bonus prize if it makes sites accept Tor users as legitimate.

[–] NikolaTeslasPigeon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use TOR because over on Reddit I got unjustly permabanned. It works great! I rarely use reddit but there just happens to be one community that has some helpful information that I'll likely need to follow for the next few months. So TOR has been great for that!

[–] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Reddit is bad

It had potential, but it has gone to waste.

I the mistake of telling asking a mod not to be condescending.

[–] nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org 2 points 1 week ago

Reddit has done things in it's lifespan, and is dying of financeer-cancer, like about half egregors and autonomous zones that come and go. The smaller ones usually die of generational trauma.

It all goes to compost and echos though, not all to the void.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Blocking vpns is tricky in a western society because so many companies cannot function without them.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They wouldn't block the protocol, just the most common commercial providers. That's very easily doable.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

hey Alexa, deploy an ec2 instance of openvpn with a socks proxy and email me the connection info.

[–] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

what is "dumb club" ? will vmess prevent authoritarians from packet sniffing?

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 22 points 1 week ago

Many have tried that, IMO getting the word out about VPNs even to non-technical users is important because most people still don't know what that is. If they ever try to ban VPNs, even non-technical people will know how to use them and how to avoid the bans.

[–] LilB0kChoy@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago

That’d quickly become a game of whac-a-mole.