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Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

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SoftTalker · 1790960547 · focus · HN ↗
> platforms are left with an impossible choice: completely block all VPN traffic nationwide or withdraw access from Utah entirely
Is it even possible to reliably know that a connection is from a VPN? Anyone can proxy through a random hosting provider.
1. happyPersonR · 1790967013 · focus · HN ↗
  Requires the vpn provider to snitch and possible tag the ip frames or http frames lol
  Folks would just host their own vpns various places and this would be pointless ….
  1. mmooss · 1790969790 · focus · HN ↗
    > Folks would just host their own vpns various places and this would be pointless
    In the real world, very few people have that capability.
    mey · 1790969983 · focus · HN ↗
    Do you have a friend/family out of state? Do they have a commodity router? Many have such a feature built in.
    Less savvy individuals/business would also have no reason to obey these laws.
    See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
    mmooss · 1790971243 · focus · HN ↗
    The limitation isn't access to the technology. There is endless OSS, it's probably built into many standard OSes, and there are many available products and projects that will deploy the whole thing for you.
    The limitation is technical skill, even having enough skill to know that this is a solution.

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