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> When the Australian minister for communication introduced record keeping laws for ISPs he encouraged people to bypass it using VPNs. Said thats what he was do
by da1 10y ago
> When the Australian minister for communication introduced record keeping laws for ISPs he encouraged people to bypass it using VPNs. Said thats what he was doing.
Do you have a source for that? If true I find it very bizarre.
- josephg 10y agoRe-reading articles about it it seems his comments aren't as cut-and-dry as I remembered: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/malcolm-turnbulls-sky-news-interview-basically-renders-the-metadata-retention-laws-useless-2015-3 http://www.businessinsider.com.au/malcolm-turnbulls-sky-news... > “If on the other hand I communicate with you via Skype for a voice call or Viber, send you a message on WhatsApp or Wickr or Threema or Signal or Telegrammer — there’s a gazillion of them — or indeed if you make a FaceTime call, then all that the telco can see, insofar as it can see anything, is that my device has had a connection with the Skype server or the WhatsApp server; it doesn’t see anything happening with you. > “There are always ways for people to get around things, but of course a lot of people don’t, and that’s why I’ve always said the data retention laws, the use of metadata, is not a silver bullet. It’s not a 100% guarantee. It is one tool in many tools.”