Re: [Tails-dev] OpenVPN

Hi,

a432511@??? 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.