Uganda Bans VPNs to Prevent Users from Dodging Its New Social Media Tax

Re:Uganda Bans VPNs to Prevent Users from Dodging Its New So... by drenvuk on Friday July 06, 2018 @12:54PM (#17472964)

So then we randomize the padding, what's next?

How else do they figure it out? My mind jumps directly to funny traffic patterns like a single person using the domain or maybe a non-normal looking website that doesn't serve static assets to non-vpn users or other normal things, etc. Can they probe the server somehow and and figure out it's a vpn?

Does the user need to visit other sites unrelated to the vpn in order to mask their own usage and appear normal?

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Re:Uganda Bans VPNs to Prevent Users from Dodging Its New So... by lqdc13 on Friday July 06, 2018 @01:26PM (#17473303)

It would be quite laborious to figure out "normal" user traffic patterns and then adjust to those. You would have to collect data on a bunch of users and then shape your own traffic to match.

Only makes sense if you are doing it for a bunch of people and at that point you are another VPN provider.

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