> 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?
