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UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill (www.birminghammail.co.uk)
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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.

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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

To be honest, I've found WireGuard's performance is harmed more by replay attacks than OpenVPN. Least that is what I put it down to when I tried them both from a VPN provider that offered both.

Edit: missed the a in replay.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

How is WG vulnerable to replay attacks? They already address that in their documentation.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

It's doesn't fall over, it just slows down. Or appears to much more than OpenVPN. There could be something else going on, but for what ever the problem was, OpenVPN was coping better and just spitting out errors about a possible replay attack and continuing like nothing was wrong. I've not looked again as OpenVPN is working fine. For everything else, I'm using WireGuard.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What's a reply attack? Do you have people activity MITM-ing your connection? Personally I've found Wireguard performance to be significantly better, especially on spotty mobile Internet

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Man in the middle can be part of it. It's just basically recording and sending stuff back. Generally I use WireGuard, but on unhygienic networks, were OpenVPN is warning about possible replay attacks, WireGuard doesn't work as well. Could be something else of course, but I've got one end. It's not constant or always.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Oh replay attacks, that makes a bit more sense. Honestly I've never been on such a poor network to run into that. I don't know your situation, but I'd be doing anything I could to get away from that ISP if they're actively manipulating your traffic

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 12 hours ago

Ah, I see it. Sorry. Corrected.

It's not really an issue with OpenVPN as it seams to cope. It's the only time I use OpenVPN instead of WireGuard.