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Originally Posted by Dragonlich
If you want a more dangerous scenario: Suppose your mother's computer gets infected with a virus written by a terror group. By this route, you get infected by this new and unknown virus. You happen to be a government official with access to sensitive information, and you happen to use a VPN connection to that computer. Using keyloggers, the terror group now has access to your computer's password, and access to that VPN connection.
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Again, I have to say that this is not my mother's responsibility. I already stated that the most important thing is for government and military installations to be secure, anfd if they are no "terrorist" (gawd that word is overused!) is going to gain access to any info, VPN or not. And you, too, should protect your own computer. It's all a matter of taking control of your data, especially on the Internet.
Besides, even with some kind of standards or licensing, what makes you think that a computer from another country is not going to be able to send some malicious code around.
Now, both Stompy and DukeNukem4ever make good points about the cost of this kind of thing, and the chance of granting "lisences" and that sort of thing, but if you're worried about cost of governmentand and escalating bureaucracy, then issuing permits to operate a computer will be a nightmare of proportions never before seen. And I can tell you right now that OS developers, software developers, computer manufactures and computer retailers will fight that with ever lawyer who'll listen, especially when no one could possibly say with any certainty that it would do any good.
I still say that sensitive installations are the only ones who truly need this kind of protection, and I would hope that they already have it.
Peace,
Pierre