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Re:Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for u... by magduf on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @05:49PM (#22361246)
>Clever circumvention technologies such as VPN won't save you when they arrest your for using circumvention technologies.

True, but my question here is: given that VPNs are pretty much essential for the way many large corporations work (they're not going to let employees access sensitive data over the internet in the clear), how does India, a country with a large tech presence and which promotes itself as a good place for software development, handle this?

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Re:Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for u... by _jgdh on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @06:16PM (#22361455)
You can use VPNs in other parts of the country, just not in the areas where internet access has been banned. While this is an egregious abuse of power and a gross violation of the rights of Kashmiris, it is not happening in the rest of the country.
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Re:Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for u... by truncate on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @06:53PM (#22361700)
How is use of VPN is enforced? Looking at credit card transactions?

Use-cases like these makes cryptocurrency so much appealing. Where I can potentially spend my money like normal physical cash.

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Re:Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for u... by sonicxxg on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @06:29PM (#22361543)
Well, it's just Kashmir, which is as close to become a tech booming region as those remote tribes in the middle of the amazon rainforest.
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Re:Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for u... by selimthegrim on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @08:36PM (#22362324)
There are online businesses, call centers, tech startups that have been affected. Maybe you would hear what they are saying if you weren’t too busy sneering.
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Re:Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for u... by product50 on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @06:22PM (#22361498)
It is just in Kashmir which has no real industry to speak of.
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Re:Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for u... by forgot_old_user on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:18PM (#22361854)
Can't they whitelist VPN access to corporate IPs?
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