[liberationtech] Chromebooks for Risky Situations?

[micah anderson]

Nadim Kobeissi <nadim at nadim.cc> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Jacob Appelbaum <jacob at appelbaum.net> wrote:
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>> This is hilarious.
>>
>> I would *never* use a laptop that lacks a way to protect all your
>> traffic (eg: VPN/Tor/SSH tunnel/etc) in a place with serious
>> surveillance as an at risk person. Not only because the remote systems
>> will have your exact geographic location and because a lack of anonymity
>> allows for targeted attacks, but also because the local network is well
>> known to be seriously hostile!
>>
>>
> Thankfully, while Chrome does not support better solutions (such as Tor),
> it does in fact support VPN connections:
> http://support.google.com/chromeos/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1282338

I hope they can do their VPN better in Chromebooks than they've
completely failed to do properly in Android...