Reply to post: Re: All that will happen now...

Licence to snoop: Ipso facto, crypto embargo? Draft Investigatory Powers bill lands

Ben Tasker

Re: All that will happen now...

> Well prove it is in use as you can simply do SSL VPN over port 443 which is normally used for encrypted web traffic

Traffic rate analysis will soon tell you whether it's an "ordinary" HTTPS connection, someone streaming HAS video or a VPN link. So it's not bullet proof, it just increases the cost of the monitoring kit we, as customers, have to pay for

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