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What's out options if they do ban VPNs?
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It's all talk. VPN is a critical business security feature. Corporate security would be at risk. Ignore this crap.
I hear you but whats to stop them from banning foreign vpns?
Foreign business users need to work too?
im not sure if enterprise interconnects would be banned. So as long as the business has has a local office or endpoint for the vpn they should be able to connect to the enterprise from that without it strictly being a vpn.
Zero Trust changed the conversation.
Government security would be too. They would undoubtedly give themselves an exception, but it shows how little the people suggesting it understands how the modern world operates
It would be fairly trivial to allow VPNs for businesses and government institutions, but ban them for regular users.
It would not be trivial to tell between business and non-business hosts.
Hahaha, really? How, pray tell?
VPN can be run (and is run) such that it can't be detected (more accurately, is incredibly difficult to detect).
Maybe it's possible, but it's a much bigger barrier to entry than it is currently, and it being illegal does have consequences when the cops search your devices.
Plus e.g. the UK is planning to mandate preinstalled government spyware on phones and AFAIK China already implemented that years ago.
Like in china, with a govt. rat in each company?
They'd love that, yeah.