• mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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    25 days ago

    Most companies run split tunnel VPNs, I.E they only route work traffic over the VPN itself. All other traffic, like traffic straight out of the internet, just goes over your regular connection.

    This limits the bandwidth the VPN has to handle, especially important with people streaming so much.

    This isn’t everywhere though. If you don’t know if they use split tunnel or not, assume they don’t and are logging all your traffic.

    Also, IT folk generally do not give a fuck about what you’re doing if it doesn’t involve malware, but there may be automated systems in play that take it out of their hands.

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      24 days ago

      However many VPNs deployed in mid to large work environments are not just a VPN but a whole endpoint client that is filtering web access, etc and logging everything.

      I know most people here would know the difference but I guess unsurprisingly most don’t have a clue as they just call it “the VPN” even though its much more then that.

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        24 days ago

        Yeah things can get messy. Zero trust and EDR bring in complications that wouldn’t be clear to an end user.

        Its best to not do anything “weird” on a work computer, but a lot of times of still won’t be a real issue. It all just depends.

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      25 days ago

      Ohhhh this explains how my router can tell me how much traffic we use for, say, Teams. I’ve wondered about that.