VPN recommendations?
    Bill Freeman 
    f at ke1g.mv.com
       
    Tue Jul  3 15:13:34 EDT 2007
    
    
  
Ben Scott writes:
 >   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.
A two factor scheme might help in this kind of scenario.  It's
supposed to be possible with OpenVPN:
    http://www.wikidsystems.net/howtos/openvpn_two_factor
I presume (but don't know) that it's possible with PPTP.
Bill
    
    
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