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On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 10:44:01 -0300
Mario Lobo wrote:

> Any comments on this?
> 
> https://thehackernews.com/2015/11/vpn-hacking.html

I don't follow that. I can see that an attacker might use an exit IP
address to identify a private IP address inside the vpn, but I thought
the client's real public IP address was only used to create a tunnel to
the vpn.