On 6/20/10 6:42 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > It's clear that PPTP has severe security weaknesses as a VPN, but what > I'm wondering is why anyone thought that a VPN would provide anonymity.
There are several VPN providers who specifically advertise their services for anonymity (e.g. Relakks, Ipredator). I suspect PPTP is a red herring here; it's probably easy enough to configure IPSec insecurely (e.g. only tunneling IPv4). Ultimately, it's just too hard to secure any split-tunneling configuration, so a VPN needs to be paired with a firewall that blocks any non-VPN traffic. Wes Felter _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
