> Steve Kinney admin at pilobilus.net
   > Sat Apr 15 09:43:14 PDT 2017
   >
   > A real VPN connection routes all network traffic from the machine in
   > question through a remote host via an encrypted connection.
   >
   > A browser-based "vpn connection" is no such thing.  It only routes
   > the browser's own traffic through a remote host - IF it works, and
   > UNTIL it is compromised by an exploit hosted on a site the
   over-confident
   > user visits.
   >
   > It leaves the system wide open to multiple families of side
   > channel attacks, and if your security model includes State and
   > Corporate actors as potential adversaries, that's not a hypothetical
   > or acceptable risk.
   Tor Browser in a nutshell, eh, vpnanon?