Attempt to ban VPNs in India

[Tejas01]

@Sushubh you mean absence of tinted windows leads to getting inside of cars getting warmer?
I have no idea about cars so just asking..

 

[Sushubh]

Ac is used a whole lot more. That can't be good for the environment.

 

[itachi]

Indian government is incompetent - Congress and BJP and everyone else.

So, these blocks will be a pathetic attempt and there will be numerous ways to bypass it.

I personally use VPN 24/7 because I don't trust the technical illiterates working behind the scenes of my ISP

Considering the creepy levels of many of my fellow Indians, damn, whoever is leading this attempt to create great wall of China, would be uploading all nudes of indians to pornhub eventually and there will be rape committees in the future.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Exclusive: Indian government looks for solution to bypass and trace those using VPNs

Reasoning that cybercriminals often use virtual private networks (VPNs), the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is looking for a solution that can subvert VPNs and can trace IP addresses of users accessing this technology. This comes months after a parliamentary committee report recommended that VPNs be banned. VPNs encrypt one’s internet traffic and one’s online identity.

The ministry in its ‘problem statement’ for Smart India Hackathon 2022, a contest where students will participate to work on such ‘problems’, said that the solution should —

• Determine if an IP is actual or a proxy/VPN IP address
• Trace the actual IP address
• Provide details of the VPN service provider

Source

 

[Chip]

And the West preaches to others.

Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU

 

[ishanjain28]

What do you mean? @Chip

 

[Chip]

EU GDPR is taken as a torchbearer of privacy as a "fundamental right" and then you see them trying to pass laws to monitor comms.

 

[ishanjain28]

Your argument is silly. GDPR to an extent was a positive step in improving privacy and they should be praised for it. This is dumb and they'll get flak for it. One thing does not negate the other. While they were seen as a torchbearer for privacy when they passed gdpr, Now that'll change. If I had more time to look into this, I'll probably check if its the same people involved in both efforts or if that has changed.

 

[Chip]

@ishanjain28 you don't seem to have got what I am trying to say. Dont you think the GDPR and the proposed law will be contrary to each other? And as for being dumb attempt in the EU that's precisely the point i am trying to make! Now let's see what happens.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Manipur High Court seeks options to block VPN servers to safely restore Internet

The Manipur High Court is now pressing to find ways to restore broadband Internet across the State (with a block on social media websites) even as the Manipur government has said this is difficult because Virtual Private Network (VPN) services can still be used to access blocked sites.

www.thehindu.com