On 29-12-2020 13:37, Axel Berger wrote:
> Richard Falken wrote:
>> followed by the road-warrior setup
>
> There is a third common useage, the one I use frequently:
> I VPN to the universtity library and go to a publisher's website. The
> publisher sees my university IP-address and recognizes me as authorized
> to access his content.
>
> It is this that allows me to work from home.

This is ~exactly how the general public now knows "vpn": to pretend to
be from a different country and circumvent geoblocks on content.
Unfortunately, but perhaps inherently, these are often dodgy services.

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