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Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level (vpncentral.com)
submitted 2 years ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Aux@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Blocking VPN is easy. You detect a new encrypted connection to a host outside of Russia. Then you connect to the same host yourself and check if it's a VPN server or not. If you get a VPN handshake, you block all access to such host. Boom! No more VPN.