1 May
2017
1 May
'17
3:16 p.m.
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?