It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    A day is going to come when the VPNs are going to be targeted for regulation.

    It’s only a matter of time before someone shoots up a school with a 3D printed gun or Epstein’s a terabyte of child porn to a Senator’s office or some other silly bullshit, and then VPNs will become the whipping boy for our litany of problems.

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      1 month ago

      Considering how many corporations rely on VPNs for their workers, I don’t think this would gain much traction.

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        1 month ago

        A number of countries are experimenting with registration of VPNs and blocking of TOR traffic.

        And there are more than a few VPN series that are explicitly or implicitly compromised by the security services in their own countries.

        I wouldn’t try planning to do the next 9/11 on a ProtonVPN, for instance. The NSA is all over that shit.