VPN recommendations?

[Ben Scott]

On 7/1/07, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> ... so you're going to get back to dinner faster.

  Or just shut off the firewall entirely.  That's even faster and more
convenient, and won't run into problems with dime store routers which
don't pass IP/47.

  It depends on what your goal is.  If you goal is to solely to get
back to dinner faster, I'd say the no-firewall option is the best
choice.

  PPTP might be worth considering if most passwords weren't trivially
cracked.  Given the scenario you give, it's a fair bet the guy's
password is also his last name, or maybe (if he's clever) his kid's
birthday.

  But along the same lines, he's probably also got enough spyware on
his laptop to make the firewall superfluous in the first place.  So
PPTP may be an appropriately (in)secure solution for such an
operation.

-- Ben