On 29/12/2020 13:06, A. Dumas wrote:
> 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.

What the content providers? Yep the UK's BBC (boy buggering communists
as we call em )are distinctly dodgy ....and you need a VPN or some sort
of proxy to access them from overseas.


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