Hi,

[email protected] wrote (20 Aug 2013 17:50:50 GMT) :
> I was under the impression that using a VPN service would provide a 
> certain level of anonymity because it masks your true IP and sends 
> traffic through an encrypted tunnel. So while a listener would know you 
> were connecting to a VPN, the traffic on the other end could have come 
> from anyone. Is that incorrect? Perhaps this question is out of scope, 
> but I am curious if third party VPN services truly accomplish what they 
> claim.

How is that better than Tor?

> I was also under the impression - through reading your wiki and 
> other info on the web - that Tor is good for masking location, but that 
> the endpoints could listen to all your traffic.

This is true for VPN too.
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