Author: sajolida Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and merge doc/why_tor
intrigeri: >> I'm not very knowledgeable about VPNs in the real-world, but I thought
>> that a VPN could be a big network infrastructure of its own, spreading
>> across the world. And so, potentially, without a single point where you
>> can observe both the incoming and outgoing connections. In that case,
>> breaking the anonymity of the VPN would require a global adversary or
>> being the admin of the VPN.
>
> I guess it's correct that large VPN providers have multiple point of
> presence on the Internet. Still, an attacker only needs to monitor
> these N points, and then I think my point still holds if N>1 but is
> relatively small, which I expect to be the case. Monitoring the IX's
> where these POP live works too.
Shit! I worked on this two weeks ago but forgot to mention it. So I
tried to solve your concerns with commit 8c7323c. If that still doesn't
work, please try to propose a phrasing that works for you. Otherwise
merge it into master.
