It's hard to get the security software I feel I need to run TAILS from home and feel secure. I subscribed to a VPN on Thursday because I do like to protect my main PC from clearnet sites like DnM on Reddit and some clearnet review boards.
I've been a long time user of DD-WRT on Linksys boxes, both for wardriving and fun, extra wattage, overclocking. So My VPN, IPVanish, offers a script to get my router to connect to the VPN. WRT54G routers are only B/G wireless, not having the capability of N. But I use dedicated Linux machines for my tails anyway, I NEVER use TAILS in my day to day PC.
I feel like I patched a big security hole, I think my ISP can no longer see that I'm using TOR and was hoping (someone chime in) that this gives me a little protection against corrupted exit nodes.
I think it will also help with one site I help out on and also my clearnet email providers that I NEVER use outside of tails, but again I fear the exit nodes.
Don't trust exit nodes and don't trust VPN.
LE have the ability to passively monitor a huge amount of traffic and they are going to focus on the perimeter of such devices if they don't own them already.
Even if data is SSL tunneled, they can interpolate a lot about what is going on when they can't decode the data.
The good thing is that they haven't been interested in drug trafficking at this time, but I wouldn't say that they don't keep records for future reference.