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.

  • Elvith Ma'for
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    917 days ago

    At best, they see a TLS handshake that gets upgraded to an encrypted websocket which hides VPN traffic…

    • @[email protected]
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      516 days ago

      And make sure to keep videos running 24/7 through said VPN so they don’t know when the packets are interesting vs just YouTube or something