Prominent backbench MP Sarah Champion launched a campaign against VPNs previously, saying: “My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.
"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.” And the Labour Party said there were “gaps” in the bill that needed to be amended.
I’m intimately aware about what it can and cannot do. And it can intercept and man in the middles any https traffic
@arc99 but end 2 end encryption is not by default https traffic ;) ssh / vpn are protocolls ( end 2 end encryption, decryptio) and this firewall can’t deep inspect while this protocoll can easy tunnel other tunnels.
I really do not know what you are saying. I have just told you that Fortigate Firewall can and does do deep packet inspection on https connections. It does so by man in the middle proxying. If one filter / proxy can do it then any other could too. There would be ways for kids to circumvent this, e.g via VPN but that is no different than with age verification.
@arc99
I said (picture) your deep inspection falls short to real end 2 end. You said your firewall can break end 2 end … nope they can’t and never will and you exactly said this in your last post too. (Sidenote -> i can gpg a text and post it public even with https … for 99% it will be giberish and only the person who got the right key material will be able to read it ) … so using deep package inspection to identify something you want to protect kids from is just a lie …
I honestly do not know what you are saying. Deep packet inspection through a firewall that does mitm interception demonstrably happens. It is not up for debate.
@arc99 you still don’t understand end 2 end encryption. Yes man in the middle decryption can be done. First for this to happen you need to accept the certificates of the firewall ( which in terms of a home PC you can’t force anyone to do ). Second even if you can decrypt the https packets , you can still put an additional layer on top which only you and the reciever has the keys too.
To give you an example you can easy write down a base64 encoded binary blob in any text field on a website. If this binary blob has been encrypted before noone will be able to tell what is inside.
So breaking https is useless if someone really wants to hide informations. So no your deep packet inspection is totally useless. The only thing you know is that someone did put strange stuff in a text on a website.
No, YOU don’t understand end to end encryption, and you don’t understand browsers. You say you could “write down a base64 encoded binary blob on a website”. Yes you could and how do you decrypt it? The asnwer is with a key (asymmetric or symmetric) that the recipient must have in memory of the receiving software - the browser that the filter has already intercepted and compromised. So “moar layers” is not protection since the filter could inject any JS it likes to reveal the inner key and/or conversation. It could do this ad nauseum and the only protection is how determined the filter is.
But this is also a nonsense argument just on a practical level. The problem is kids connecting to adult websites, or websites with some adult content. The filter doesn’t need to do much - either block a domain outright, or do some DPI to determine from the path what part of the website the browser is calling. The government thinks it reasonable that every single website that potentially hosts adult content should capture proof of identity of adults. I contend that really the issue is kids having access to those websites at all, and that proxies can and would be a far more effective way to control the issue without imposing on adults. No solution is perfect, but a filter is a far more effective way than entrusting some random website with personal information. Only this week somebody found an app that was storing ids in a public S3 bucket compromising all those users. Multiply that by hundreds, thousands of websites all needing verification and this will not be the last compromise by any means.
@arc99 the same way as you did encrypt it ??? with gpg ?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35584461/gpg-encryption-and-decryption-of-a-folder-using-command-line
??? the needed certificate are exchanged by for example a matrix / telegram or personal ???
And don’t underestimate kids … Or better asked yourself how did they get porn in the 80s and 90s ??? ( and yes they did )
PS: and honestly imho this hole “protection talk” is totally nonesense or are parent’s not anymore capable of protecting their kids? Tell my one reason why a kid < 16 should have access to internet without supervision ? An Emergency Call can still be done without internet.
This hole discussion is like if you would had let a Porn VHS in the 80’s unlocked in the living room and your kid unsupervised for hours in the living room. Would have someone called in the 80’s to audit if your porn has been stored kids savely you would have gone crazy.
PPS: Just because you don’t have statistic’s how many kids watched adult content in the 80’s or 90’s doesn’t mean it didn’t happen !!!