That's not a bad idea, especially since these days you often can't rely on someone else's network to be secure and free of shenanigans like this: http://news.yc

That's not a bad idea, especially since these days you often can't rely on someone else's network to be secure and free of shenanigans like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804608 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804608 On the other hand, this leads to suboptimal routing. If I'm in Australia and the VPN server is in the US, connections to Australian hosts would be routed across the Pacific and back.