We're chasing this from data science side as well. As far as charting the pattern of activity and flag anomalies. This should trap the subs since he/she won't be checking email, responding to chat messages etc, or hopefully time of activity could give us clues.
I do agree, there are many VPN commercial services and they will never advertise servers properties, besides there's lots of other open-VPN options. We shall conquer! On Tue, Apr 18, 2023, 3:21 PM Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of John Jason Jordan > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2023 2:00 PM > > >It would be nice if VPN services advertised how effectively they stop > others from finding out who and where you really are. > > They are never going to do this because they are constantly tweaking their > proprietary protocols to get around firewalls, and they don't want the > firewall vendors knowing when they made a change to get past firewalls. > And given who some of the firewall vendors are, and what they do to people > they don't like, this is very understandable. > > This stuff is getting very advanced nowadays since many firewalls are > doing deep packet inspection, and looking specifically for patterns in > packet traffic that indicate it is VPN traffic encapsulated in regular http > or https traffic. So the proprietary vpn clients will modify the encrypted > traffic to make it look like regular https traffic. > > Never forget that for you, me, and probably all the readers of this list, > that creating using blocking and messing around with VPNs is really mainly > an intellectual exercise, but that there are many people in the world in > places like Russia and China where a secure VPN means not having people > breaking their doors down in the middle of the night and hauling them off > to prison - or worse. > > Ted > >
