Home Ministry Proposes Ban on VPN Services: Should You Be Worried?

This article examines India’s proposal to ban consumer VPN services, assessing practical enforcement techniques (e.g., DPI, QoS throttling, IP/port/SNI blocking), anticipated ISP implementation challenges, and the potential impact on legitimate remote-work security. It concludes that a blanket ban is unlikely to be fully effective, recommends prioritizing international cooperation for cybercrime mitigation, and notes that sophisticated actors can evade attribution using methods beyond VPNs (such as operating through compromised systems via RDP).