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What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 5 days ago by BD89@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I know it isn't specific to just Linux but I use Linux anyway so my question is,

Is there a way you could use a VPN without them knowing that? Or if they outlaw them is it really just game over?

If they made VPNs illegal I suppose stuff like TOR would follow except TOR is partly funded by the US state department and the US is one of my countries closest allies (one of the five eyes). So surely they wouldn't shut down something the US funds directly... Would they?

I've read very very little about Gemini and other protocols like Gopher, would this be the way forward if they do this? And is that even remotely close to the security and potential anonymity you would receive from a VPN?

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 4 days ago

I've heard they have government-approved VPN providers. And companies there use VPNs for their job. They'll also do business on platforms which are blocked on the regular Chinese internet. Of course business is guided by the communist party so you might have someone keeping an eye on your company VPN (mis)use. People who went there told me they're more lenient with foreigners. Your European/American company's corporate VPN might work well, you might also experience connections being dropped and the Great Firewall messing with it. And there are some attempts at circumventing blockage, like TOR's Snowflake, though all of this is a cat and mouse game, some (illegal) thing works for a while and then they shut it down and you'll move to the next one. Though as a citizen of an oppressive regime you'd better think twice before engaging in a cat and mouse game with authorities.