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VPN usage in South Korea and Saudi Arabia (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I may go for short term work in either South Korea or Saudi for a few months. Does anybody have any idea, how safe it is to use a VPN as a foreigner in these countries? Worse case scenario, can I use a VPN in a Azure VM and scp torrent downloaded files or something?

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[–] M500@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Based on a quick google search vpns are often blocked in Saudi, but it says they are not illegal.

I think they block specific provider so hosting your own should solve the problem.

I think they are legal in Korea since Mullvad hosts vpns in Korea.

Double check on these things but it seems like you are good to go.

[–] curry@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No South Korea nodes in Mullvad's server list. Perhaps other providers do? I don't think SK is a popular destination for exit nodes since it has a strong censorship against pornography among others.

[–] 4_degrees@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

There's a selectable node for Korea on Nord and I had no issues with mine while traveling.

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks! Your right. I’m thinking of Singapore. My bad.