Hey guys with the new pathetic laws going through here in Australia and the news that they want to start charging gst on commodities bought outside Australia i have decided to use a vpn full time.
the issue i have is my adsl is only 5mbt if i am lucky so i take a real hit in speed when using it.
so my question is if i use the Australian servers will they be "secure" enough to get me by?
secure is in brackets as i am not doing anything that needs me to hide just dont want mr abbot and his cronies looking at my meta
also i put this in the linux sub topic as i am running linux mint so i don’t have the pia software installed
In theory of PIAs customer privacy policy. Yes you should be safe, since you are using a VPN it will hit that server location within Australia and the meta data will/ may be collected but they will not be able to see who's it receiving it.
UNLESS it contains glaring personal details then if they actually look at it they could probably find out whose traffic it is.
So really you are just raising the work required to identity whose traffic it is at the end of the day, since its pretty unlikely they'd actually look at your traffic you'll be ok.
Just remember with privacy and secruity on the internet, you're never safe only safer.
Yeah that's an unfortunate downside of a VPN, I have NBN 100\40 and I lose about 40% of my speed when using mine.
We only have a year and a bit left and we have a chance of replacing this mess of a government, although we'll most likely be replacing it with the other side that also voted for this horseshit. I'll bet money we'll be seeing a pretty huge swing towards The Greens next Federal election. Also side bet, The Palmer Party will vanish overnight.
How come they aren't available, they have insane range on those things. Although you're not really missing out on much with Wireless NBN, the data caps are pitiful.
OpenVPN has the least overhead than L2TP and PPTP with the same or higher level of encryption set in PIA client (recommend that you leave it at default though since it's secure enough). There are australia servers now that are fast, I can get about 1.2MB/s with them.
Ill just put this here http://www.vpngate.net/en/ It's a free VPN service created by a Japanese University and run by volunteers around the world. It's good to test the speeds. Although you have no idea if some people keep logs of your browsing etc. The Japanese VPN (the one run by the Uni) would be the most reliable and trustworthy as well as one of the fastest.