Computers & Internet Malcolm Turnbull introduces legislation for metadata retention scheme

[TheWoodenSlug]

Whenever The Passenger talks about computers a whole lot of 'nope' goes on in my head.

Haha, I'm the total opposite. I work in IT myself, but I only graduated 2 years ago and I've got a lot to learn, so I love it when The Passenger gets all techy!

 

[vealesy]

I've always assumed that stuff was traceable to some extent already... We are publishing our thoughts online, after all..

but I see your point

Wrong.

We are not publishing "our" thoughts.

"Vealesy" is a character created that does not exist as a natural person and can not be held to account in a court of law for anything he says online.

 

[The Passenger]

showing my ignorance....

what is a vpn?

Virtual Private Network. Essentially allows you to log on to another server (a private server) and all data sent and received between that server and your computer is encrypted.

In terms of ISP's, all the ISP would see is that you have communicated with a VPN. They wouldn't be able to see what sites you've visited, or anything else. But a lot of VPN providers aren't as secure as they say, or will give up information about you if they are compelled to by law.