[email protected]: > On 1/5/2014 12:55 AM, Webie Webie wrote: >> Hi, you should add openvpn to Tails if it possible! > > This has been discussed before and it has been agreed that a VPN is > not so good for anonymity as some might think. In fact, Tails does not > recommend to use such poor anonymity at all. > > Because in some particular cases, an user who know what he is doing, > needs a specific IP address or an IP address in a specific location or > an IP address not listed a as a Tor gateway (such as for checking > online bank account or making payments, etc.) - because of all these I > think a VPN support will be useful in Tails but only for OpenVPN which > is believed to be secure at this moment, not PPTP, L2TP or other. > > The manner should be the same like Unsafe Browser, meaning the user > has to be warned about the risk he is exposing too and I think the VPN > should be used only over the Tor network, never straight connections > with real IP address. Just my thoughts, experts here can and will take > the correct decision.
Yes. And it might be worth to have a look at our blueprint on VPN support: https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/vpn_support/
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