Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
My, how times change. When I mentioned that _very_ fact a bit over a decade ago, on a mailing list thread[1] in July 2001, to help a user avoid using very bad security, that triggered off what eventually emerged as a long-term character-assassination campaign against yr. humble servant that one Russ P. Herrold and a small motley crew of fellow passive-aggressives started, carried out both behind my back[2] and to my face[3], and coordinating via a mailing list in rural Florida. Because, I assume, they all desperately needed hobbies. ;->
Life's too short for personal attacks, coordinated or otherwise. Besides, they tend to escalate conflict and harm the reputation of the perpetrator.
And, astoundingly, PPTP security is _still_ weak.
I suspect that's one reason why technically informed contributors to this and other fora usually recommend OpenVPN or IPSec instead.