Originally Posted by chichow
How would you know that when you are using a wireless hotspot (e.g. Starbucks) that the AP that your laptop associates with is really the genuine one?
I don't. That's why I want to be able to connect to a trusted VPN so that my data is encrypted when it goes through the access point.
Originally Posted by ajnz
That URL re. MS PPTP is pretty old, and seems to only refer to specific bugs in the implementation of the Server side of things. I used to run MPPE over PPTP between Linux machines (and also a Windows client) and did not have issues, and did not see the specific concerns in my testing.
As far as I know (which isn't that far), MS hasn't addressed any of the security issues in PPTP.