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Its too bad that those law makers don’t consult with actual experts in the field, before making ridiculous decisions like banning VPN’s.
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Again I will say keep it in the Parents hands. Use Parental Controls on phones & computers.
I am shocked about all this. IMO, it should be ILLEGAL for any site to ban or make it difficult to use a VPN. I get that all the time. I get multiple CAPTCHAs, outright banning, not being able to log in to my bank accounts without calling an 800 number and verbally giving my account number, name, address, and social security number! That’s my Amazon VISA (Chase) account. I can’t imagine anything more insecure than giving all information necessary for a rogue employee to hack my account or commit identity theft. I mean how secure could those recordings really be? Who has access to them? And there is absolutely no way to prevent this atrocity without disabling my VPN, a very insecure act.
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I’m not on a particular side, as I can see the difficulties both ways. Thinking of banking in particular, when I was a child of 8 years old my mom took me into the neighbourhood bank, introduced me to the staff, and together we set up my first bank account when I was making money delivering newspapers. That all sounds very nostalgic I’m sure, but it also showed a bit how much their security model relied on physical proximity. They had a signature card on file in the bank with my signature, and that was how I could be authenticated in the future, when I would show up in person.
Yes, physical presence is somewhat quaint in the modern times, but nothing much beats it for security, and so banks are still trying to find a way to evolve that level of security (or maybe just peace of mind.)
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I can understand it for bank accounts, spoofed locations over VPN is probably one of the most widely used ways to get into bank accounts with stolen credentials. I see that as the same as not allowing their apps to run on jailbroken devices.
If they didn’t enforce that sort of level of authentication and some stranger used a VPN to spoof a location in the USA and drained your bank account without further confirmation of identity, you’d be pretty miffed, to say the least. It is a trade-off between ease of use and security.
If you are in a location that requires a VPN, maybe think twice about performing the transaction there in the first place.
With my German account, it is a little different, I have a physical device I have to stick my card into and it reads the screen of my PC or smartphone when I make a transaction and the screen shows a flickering “barcode” with the relevant transaction information, the device then shows the recipient bank account and the sum, if I confirm that, it generates a 6 digit one time code that it based on the “seed” in my card and the recipient and the sum, that means that if hackers try and spoof my connection and “man-in-the-middle” my transaction, I will either see it, because the recipient account number or the sum will be wrong on my device, or the bank will block the transaction, because the code doesn’t match the changed destination account or the sum that the hackers changed when the transaction information was sent to the banks’s servers. That is inconvenient, when I am out and about, because I can’t transfer money directly from my account without the device, which I don’t carry with me, but it is at least fairly secure.
Agreed. People finding services are logged out, they’re having to do captchas etc. is not an attempt to ban VPNs. It’s either sensible security checks or an attempt to enforce geo-restrictions on a service.
I had this in the US last month, where I’d set my VPN to auto-connect to the UK, plus I was also using one of those dodgy international eSIMS that buys service from China telecom. All of the services I use were quite rightly flagging this as an issue.
I ended up ditching the eSIM and getting another that was Canada-based.
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