I know it isn’t specific to just Linux but I use Linux anyway so my question is,
Is there a way you could use a VPN without them knowing that? Or if they outlaw them is it really just game over?
If they made VPNs illegal I suppose stuff like TOR would follow except TOR is partly funded by the US state department and the US is one of my countries closest allies (one of the five eyes). So surely they wouldn’t shut down something the US funds directly… Would they?
I’ve read very very little about Gemini and other protocols like Gopher, would this be the way forward if they do this? And is that even remotely close to the security and potential anonymity you would receive from a VPN?
My recommendation would be Tor and use bridges. Bridges connect to Tor for you, and the IPs of bridges are secret. So no one really knows that you’re connecting to Tor. They can only see you connect to a random IP. For extra security you can use the “tails” OS.
While not foolproof, should be good enough for any sort of “normal” people under mass surveillance. If you’re special enough to have human attention on you, I don’t know sadly.
This. Pretty sad that people in my country (UK) might have to use technology designed to help people in repressive regimes for basic access to perfectly legal and moral information, but here we are.