[OpenWireless Tech] A small question about tracking

Eugene Smiley eug.smiley at gmail.com
Mon Nov 5 10:11:39 PST 2012


This is like what I have recently started to set up on a TP-Link
wr703n running Openwrt. The box only cost me $25, but it also only has
one Ethernet port.

I intend to try to set up VPN over TOR over VPN since running TOR
locally is against my TOS.

Discussion of TOR + VPN:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorPlusVPN

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:14 AM, "Andy Green (林安廸)" <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> This is why there is so much talk about VPN here.
>
> If the AP only routes valid UDP VPN traffic, it solves the issue completely.
>
> [ client -> {encryption VPN client ] ->
>                                           AP NAT IP
>   [ open WLAN ] ->
>                                           AP's Internet IP
>    [ VPN server decryption} ] ->
>                                           VPN server IP
>      [target on internet]
>
> You can see the AP IP address only makes it as far as the VPN server. The
> entity that goes out on the internet to the target is the VPN server IP
> which the client is responsible for.
>
> If the AP owner only routes VPN traffic, he has nothing to worry about.



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