Equating Burmese personality with 20 Vpns software is, of course, said in jest, but the real-world amount is also great. According to modern rights activists, Myanmar residents have a total of 5 VPN apps installed on their phones on average.
CRACKDOWN ON VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS
Researchers and digital experts began to notice that the SAC has been positively preventing exposure to VPNs between later May and beginning June of this year. At the end of May, the Transport and Communications Ministry ordered a nationwide ban on access to Facebook, Instagram, X, WhatsApp and VPN services, according to news reports from Voice of America (VOA ).
The junta’s 2022-drafted Cybersecurity Law, which was never entirely enacted, was one of the judicial executions of this assault. People have been being arbitrarily searched, searched, and also arrested for having VPNs on their phones, according to the security forces on the ground.
However, it’s difficult to believe that the regime’s try to ban VPN services will prevent people from using the device to stay connected digitally despite the physical assault and flagrant violation of people’s right to freedom of speech, view, and right to information.
However, the ban on VPNs will probably lead people who are desperate for social or information to turn to alternatives, even from unknowable ones, which would increase their exposure to cybercrimes. Regional experts told the author, who spoke privately, that they had noticed a rise in phishing links being promoted as links to various new and cost-free VPN services.