Fool the censors and stay online. That’s the goal of VPN company Amnezia, which on Tuesday released a new protocol designed to help its customers stay a step ahead of governments around the world that are trying to restrict or block internet access.
AmneziaWG 2.0 is an update on AmneziaWG version 1.5. and a “fundamental shift” in how the new protocol works, the company said. It’s a new twist on preventing some government censors from knowing when someone is using a VPN to access otherwise restricted apps and sites.
A VPN protocol is the set of rules your device follows when it talks to an internet server. AmneziaWG is built on the existing WireGuard protocol, a popular protocol used by many other VPNs, but with a couple of added layers of obfuscation.
Mazay Banzaev, founder of Amnezia, told CNET that the “internet is being broken apart” in various countries and that a VPN
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