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

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  1. SoftTalker · · 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 · · 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. hnlmorg · · focus · HN ↗
        > Folks would just host their own vpns various places and this would be pointless

        I think that’s the GPs point.

        Though some services do already block traffic originating from popular hosting providers like AWS out of fears of bots.

        1. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
          There's fears of bots and there's actual bots. My custom WAF blocks 500 requests per second, and let's through 2. There should be nearly zero false positives with the detection method I'm using.
          1. hnlmorg · · focus · HN ↗
            > There's fears of bots and there's actual bots.

            They’re not mutually exclusive statements ;)

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