With a lot of talk from governments around the world trying to either ban or restrict VPNs, I’m curious to know what are our options if they follow through? I know we can use the Tor network, but is there other options? I assume we could self-host our VPN since I don’t think it would be affected by a possible ban. Is there a less tech-savvy option I’m not aware of? I’m just trying to understand all of my options just in case a ban does happen.
Yeah let’s write down all the available options here before they write the legislation so they have a nice easy reference for how to write the law so it squashes all the workarounds.
What is your implication here?
That no has ever or will ever discuss VPN alternatives outside of this +30 vote thread on lemmy.ca and that the governments of the world will reference this thread to go about determining what to outlaw?
I’m sorry to tell you, but every single one of these governments is already in some regard aware of everything in this thread and beyond by virtue of it already being public information - and if they weren’t aware of this stuff, don’t you think they would for example, just pay someone to tell them?
They know Tor exists, they know I2P exists, they know Socks5 Proxies exist, they know meshtastic exists, they know freenet exists, they know Yggdrasil exists, they know mail exists, they know sharing the password to an email account so that people can read each others saved drafts exists, they know carrier pigeons exist, they know SSL/TLS exists, they know telnet exists, they know ssh exists, they know IRC exists, they know matrix chat exists, they know signal exists, they know simplexx exists, they know telegram exists, they know dead drops exists, etc.
You also realize that if they wanted to cover all of their bases they don’t even have to go that far? They could just pass a law stating “Any product or technology which hides internet bound network traffic from your ISP is now illegal”? They could even say “Attempting to keep any information private from a government entity is illegal”.
Like unless you secretly wrote your own communications protocol and then never shared it (which kind of defeats the purpose), then if you have access to the knowledge of the protocol existing, so does any government (at least in the case of any widely used communications technology).