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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. Security concerns by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They have a valid reason to do so, being almost in war with India. VPN's and encrypted connections are mostly used for criminal purposes. If you aren't doing anything bad, why couldn't the government know about it?

    1. Re:Security concerns by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      What? A troll? I thought he was just a Republican...