[lopsa-discuss] hardware VPN devices for laptops?

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:43 PM -0800 2005-12-20, Marius Strom wrote:

>  And you would trust the hardware vendor more why?  And you would have
>  the expertise to open up/disassemble/vet the hardware router?

	I would trust the hardware vendor more because they have put more 
skin into the game, and the cost of failure is higher for them.  The 
same reasons why I trust a hardware vendor of RAID controllers and 
devices more than I trust the software-only implementations.

	I mean, it's not like I've got the technical expertise to 
properly evaluate the code in a software-only implementation.  So, on 
that respect, I'm not losing anything here.

>  IMHO, if the user is skilled enough to route their home LAN through the
>  software VPN, they'll do similar with the hardware box and a little
>  router on the backend. :)

	Right, but some users are too stupid to be able to handle a 
software VPN on their home LAN.  A hardware box that they can always 
take with them and always plug their ethernet connector into, is a 
different story.

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