Hi all,

Haven’t been around so much for a while. Had a car accident ( Lost control of the car when the roads were pure ice with the sun on it and ended up off the road and had to get pulled out by a tractor…anyhoo…) and its only been recently I can even sit in front of a computer without a massive headache! And of course now am completely swamped with work and Swedish assignments that have not been done and are due. 🙁

I have a question for all you internet computer wizzes.
Today the Swedish government( arsholes) voted in favour of making internet companies hold onto data for 6 months with the view of prosecuting people who download.
Not only infringing privacy online, but also able to access basically any form of digital communication. Texts, calls, emails etc.

Sad sad day.

Wasn’t something like this done in the UK too?

How can I get around this? Yes I download stuff. Mostly TV eppies. Does a vpn really work? Are there other ways?
Living in a Swedish speaking land, having a few eppies of my fav english speaking programs is my way of chilling out.

The say its to stop child pornography, but fuck, isn’t there a better way instead of stopping it rather than taking away Mr Joe Averages privacy?
Fucking hell. It’s againts MY human rights dammit to be subjected to this.
Comes into effect May 1.

Need to get myself set up and sorted before then if it is actually possible.
One provider here is giving ALL their customers the same isp so nothing can be traced to any one person. Unfortunately where I live we don’t get to choose our provider we have to have the one we have.

Bah.

Anyway, hope everyone is ok and enjoying Spring! (The snow has been melting here, another 2-3 weeks of plus temperatures and maybe it will be mostly melted!)