VPNs are becoming a popular option for people wanting to access overseas content. But they’re much more than that – and sometimes legally murky.
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Virtual private network companies make lots of promising claims about their services. Most people don’t have the skills to double-check their providers. So this group of researchers did the testing.
Virtual private networks help citizens around the world evade state surveillance – how long until more governments take action?
Netflix’s recent ban on proxies, unblockers and virtual private networks (VPNs) is unlikely to provide a long-term cure to content providers’ chronic headaches.
In recent months there have been many reports of Australians covertly signing up for the US streaming service Netflix, using fake postcodes and software workarounds to fool its geo-blocking system. One…
Have you ever wanted to exist in more than one place at the same time? The laws of physics suggest wormholes through space and time are hypothetical; but wormholes do exist in cyberspace and wonders can…
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Professor of Digital Media, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer in Networking and Security, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
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Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property, Texas A&M University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, University of Illinois Chicago
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Research Assistant Professor, IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain; Research Scientist, Networking and Security, International Computer Science Institute based at, University of California, Berkeley
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