It is worth putting a lot of thought into how secure you are while you are online, because you are sending and receiving a lot of information that may be sensitive. For example, you don’t want someone knowing the password to your banking website, or even to your Facebook. However, when you use the internet generally, your information is far from secure. This is why it’s a good idea to get a Swedish IP address in Australia.

While you are on the internet, your information is passed unencrypted with a range of other traffic. You are actually highly susceptible, while you are online, and a VPN helps to remedy this problem. A VPN operates by passing your information through a tunnel and encrypts it. This means that anyone who looks at your information only sees encrypted information, and has no way of knowing what you are actually doing. This is important if anyone is eavesdropping on the information that you are sending or receiving online, because it makes all data look the same.

Another important factor for protecting your information is that the VPN masks your IP address with one of its own. The reason that this is so important is that it dissociates you with your online identity, and it means people can’t use your IP address as a way of tracking your habits online.

However, security is only one aspect of a VPN, and if you are living in Australia, it may not even be the most important one. A VPN is also critically important if you are trying to get around censorship. Because your data is associated with the IP address of another country and is encrypted, censorship mechanics do not have any way of knowing who you actually are.

Censorship within Australia has been a significant factor for many years, although internet censorship is a much newer field. There have been various proposals and attempts to introduce widespread filtering on the internet in Australia, which would allow the government to maintain a blacklist of websites that cannot be accessed in Australia.

It is a risky precedent for Australia to be setting, and having a secret blacklist has the potential to allow the government to add as many websites to its list of blocked websites as it likes. If you use a VPN to get a Swedish IP address in Australia, you are subject to the censorship in Sweden, or rather the lack of it, instead of Australian censorship.

In addition to unblocking Australian censorship, you'll get access to Swedish streaming television. With a Swedish IP, websites will think you're in Sweden. This may mean that some Australian sites will be unavailable while connected to the VPN, but getting access to these types of sites can be as simple as disconnecting. There are also ways to customize your connection by having some sites use the VPN connection, and others, not.