Hacker News with Generative AI: VPNs

Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law (voanews.com)
Pakistan’s top advisory body on religious affairs on Friday declared that using virtual private networks to access blocked content on the internet is against Shariah, or Islamic law.

Pakistan, Religion, Islam, Internet Censorship, VPNs

40 points by ivewonyoung 5 days ago | 20 comments

Can't trust any VPN these days (orhun.dev)
After Turkey banned Discord, I had to jump through some hoops, fix my VPN, and learn a bit about how DNS works.

Privacy, VPNs, Turkey, DNS

89 points by orhunp_ 36 days ago | 78 comments

Exposed: How Israeli Spies Control Your VPN (mintpressnews.com)
An estimated 1.6 billion people rely on VPNs to carry out the most sensitive tasks online, from watching illegal videos to engaging in sexual or political activities. But few people know that a considerable chunk of that market—including three of the six most popular VPNs—is quietly operated by an Israeli-owned company with close connections to that country’s national security state, including the elite Unit 8200 and Duvdevan Units of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

Privacy, Surveillance, Israel, VPNs, Cybersecurity

46 points by thunderbong 43 days ago | 65 comments

Apple removes nearly 100 VPNs used by Russians to bypass censorship (elpais.com)
The U.S. multinational Apple has removed almost a hundred VPN applications in Russia, dozens more than the Kremlin’s censorship body officially reported.

Apple, VPNs, Russia, Censorship, Technology

31 points by speckx 51 days ago | 3 comments

Brazil to Fine Anyone Using a VPN to Access X $8,874 per Day; Elon Musk Responds (complex.com)

Brazil, VPNs, Censorship, Elon Musk, Technology

65 points by josephcsible 80 days ago | 46 comments

Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia 'more effectively' than Putin (theregister.com)

Russia, VPNs, Apple, Censorship, Technology

14 points by beardyw 138 days ago | 10 comments

Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore (novayagazeta.eu)

Apple, Censorship, Russia, VPNs, App Store

55 points by belter 140 days ago | 20 comments

Fingerprinting VPNs with Custom Router Firmware [pdf] (nymity.ch)