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Wangle's VPN faced a complete re-engineering, its share price fell from 5 cents back to the 2 cents it had started on, and the staff who had been stretching its $4.3 million raising for two years without revenue had to stretch some more.

Starting over again was harder for Wangle than it would be for most VPNs, which are built on two major open-source platforms, OpenVPN or OpenSSL. Wangle's was built from the ground up using patented "network optimisation" technology, allowing it to attain a speed which independent testing from PwC claimed to have found up to twice as fast as OpenVPN.

He stressed that the data of users would not be freely available to outside agencies.

"The data is secured, encrypted and anonymised. The keys that link it to people are in a separate database that the Goverment has to go through the courts to get, so it's not open slather," Mr Smith said.

As for the offshore VPN's
He added that Wangle would never inject malware or 'malvertising' - software designed to damage or gain access to a users' information - as a recent CSIRO study of 283 offshore VPNs found 38 per cent had done.

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