mjr wrote:Psamathe wrote:And if https: is allowed how are they going to distinguish between OpenVPN (on port 443) and https: ?
Deep packet inspection. Of course, that's a huge waste of electricity that could be doing something useful, such as securing conversations through encryption... ;-)
But who would they pursue, the user (how many users will understand when they are only using privacy protection software) or the developer (difficult when not a corporation and not in the UK and with no financial links to UK, using freeware/ope source, etc.). Or would they pursue Microsoft/Apple/Google for allowing such software to be downloaded (but what about sideloading or Linux, etc.).
Ian