Fwd: [apc.members] OpenVPN

Steve Kinney admin at pilobilus.net
Sat Apr 15 09:43:14 PDT 2017


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On 04/15/2017 10:17 AM, Mirimir wrote:
> On 04/15/2017 08:08 AM, b0z0 at SDF.ORG wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Try privatix vpn firefox addon. It is one click to enable in the
>> browser and is free too.
>> 
>> :  )
> 
> Browser plugin VPNs are worthless.

For the uninformed:

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.

:o/





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