Comment by heavyset_go
6 months ago
> Do you happen to know what the answer of this scheme to "I have a wireguard connection to another country, you can't see my traffic" is?
WG traffic is easily identifiable and able to be blocked, it's what happens in countries that ban VPNs.
At that point something along the likes of shadowsocks would be more effective, and the question still remains.
Shadowsocks is detectable using entropy analysis but not everybody does it. I heard in China they do. you connect at first they collect data, analyze and ban. in Russia they are not that smart yet but in Russia even if you mask VPN traffic they use other tricks. For example if you visit any state adjacent site from your Russian IP and VPN with same cookies they can ban VPN exit node. Or if all your traffic goes to one IP they will probe ports or just ban that.
I think the answer is that it's likely illegal if someone can prove an intent to defraud or commit a theft of service, but the chances of getting caught may be small depending on your technical ability/OPSEC.
Yes, but is that what happens in this specific case? There are enough legitimate uses of VPNs that blocking them solely in case people wriggle out of social media taxes would be extremely heavy-handed.