Australia has long since been on the crusade to end encryption, and we’ve covered their stance against it in numerous blog posts in the past. Australia and it’s government officials have even come out as saying that they don’t believe in the laws of encryption, or even...
Australian citizens are reeling after the newly proposed legislation has been announced in which new laws will force tech companies to provide access to private user messages whether encrypted or not. Applications like WhatsApp allow users across the globe to communicate freely and effectively through end-to-end encryption. The new law...
Australian government officials have now passed a new metadata retention scheme that gives law enforcement agencies complete access to user text messages, emails, and metadata. Strangely enough, even though only 40% of the Australian population supported the law it still passed. 44% did not support metadata retention, and 16%–(understandably...
TorGuard, one of the industry’s top VPN Service providers, continues to rapidly expand its VPN network to keep up with the growing demand for internet security and privacy. With increased interest from clients in Australia, TorGuard has recently announced new gigabit VPN endpoints across Australia, India, and Indonesia. These...
Australia is no longer immune from internet censorship. Recently, a coalition announced that under a Tony Abbott lead government Australians would have “adult content” filters installed on their phone services and ISP connections unless they first chose to opt out: “We will work with mobile phone companies (such as Telstra,...
Clients of TorGuard anonymous VPN service will be please to find out that many new connections have now been added in Australia and Brazil. These new OpenVPN servers have been automatically updated through our portable TorGuard lite and Viscosity VPN software. Existing customers are encouraged to restart their software to...
