[LINK] Brandis rushes to release telco metadata for civil proceedings

Christian Heinrich christian.heinrich at cmlh.id.au
Fri Dec 23 09:43:58 AEDT 2016


Jim,

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Jim Birch <planetjim at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suggest you read lifehacker's pages on VPN.  This compares services and
> is updated periodically.

I'd recommend https://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-service-provider-review-2015-150228/

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Jim Birch <planetjim at gmail.com> wrote:
> The biggest user segment in Australia are people who want to access the
> more extensive content on US Netflix, but there are other people who want
> to hide their connections for various reasons.  In terms of metadata
> collected by the Australian government, this should show a single encrypted
> connection to single overseas ip address (which they may know as a vpn
> provider) but not all the stuff you browse or access.

This is the core issue, their offering is for geolocation rather than privacy.


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Christian Heinrich

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