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Pakistan Bans Encryption

Posted by Soulskill on from the for-undecipherable-reasons dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After some rumors of this last month, Pakistan has now officially told all of the country's ISPs that they need to block all encrypted VPNs since content running over such services cannot be monitored by the government."

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  1. no remote workers by bugi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They won't have anymore telecommuters. One of our workers awhile back was resident in pakistan. No way are we going to let our data over the wire in the clear, so we can't hire from there anymore.

  2. Re:I spoke too soon by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And don't forget ye olde Tunnel Over DNS!

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