Good news. Swedish newspapers
DN and
SvD, as well as frontman
Peter Sunde himself, report that the anonymity VPN-service
Ipredator is in it's final beta stage and could be going live any day now.
Of course, in an ideal world Internet users wouldn't need such a service, but in a world where our civil liberties are constantly under fire by
repressive governments and
private interest groups, it's a necessity.
Update: According to police lawyer Fredrik Ingblad Ipredator will only make it
a bit more difficult, but not at all impossible, to track down users of file sharing services. Of course he refuses to give any examples of how this would be done...
The
VPN-solution I use at work, or rather when I'm not at the office but want to access the company network, encrypts the traffic from my client and to the VPN-server, and the only visible IP-adress is the one of the VPN-server. I'm assuming Ipredator is working more or less the same (except, obviously, my company keeps logs of what I'm doing when I'm using their VPN service), so I would like to know which rules Mr. Ingblad and his comrades intend to break in order to get past this. Install spyware on every Swedish citizen's computer (would be all the more reasons to
switch to Linux)? Either way I'm sure they could get plenty of good advice from sleazeball extraordinaire
Henrik Pontén and
Antipiratbyrån on this.
