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Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Ste41th@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This was bound to happen, and it’s ridiculous

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[–] pieman@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I think that would look like implementing backdoors, which is of course an effective end to encryption. I have thought of how Steganography could be used to hide the a message and hide the fact your using encryption. I would imagine this would only be useful for messaging purposes however.