[OpenWireless Tech] On VPNs

[Peter Eckersley]

As others have noted, there are some practical problems with current VPN
implementations (hard to configure, OSes may send insecure traffic while
waiting for a VPN to be established).

None of these are /necessary/ problems with VPNs.  With work, it should in
theory be possible to offer easy-to-setup VPNs that protect clients
against malicious APs.  If APs wish to transmit nothing but VPN traffic, it
could also protect the APs against clients that do questionable things with
the network.

The big question with VPNs is, can we get cheap enough bulk VPN provision that
anyone can get a VPN connection that is free or very cheap, and extremely easy
to configure?

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Peter Eckersley                            pde at eff.org
Senior Staff Technologist         Tel  +1 415 436 9333 x131
Electronic Frontier Foundation    Fax  +1 415 436 9993