Are there any plans to provide integrated (and free) VPN support from within the Tor Browser? I am interested to see if something similar to this functionality provided by the Opera browser (DEV 39) is in work...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the following statements are true WRT VPNs and Tor:
Trusted VPNs provide encryption/authentication functionality to protect packet payload content for a given session connection but do nothing to 'anonymize' traffic routing information. VPNs are data-centric from a security/privacy standpoint and cannot 'help once the active connection goes 'outside' the current VPN tunnel session.
Tor provides functionality to 'anonymize' packet header information (traffic routing information) within the Tor relay network but does not address packet payload encryption/authentication. Tor is routing-centric from a security/privacy standpoint but cannot 'help' once the active connection goes 'outside' the current exit node.
I need to spend some additional time putting together a meaningful use case as per the comment below - please bear with me...