> Interesting that we use the same word to describe both technologies, but semantically and technically they are very different.
That's where my head was at. When i hear my colleagues talk about a VPN, i'm thinking about an IPSEC tunnel and an afternoon of swearing at ios on some outdated ASA. When I hear regular people talking about a VPN, my mind immediately goes to "oh, so you want to watch rick and morty on netflix and don't know anybody hosting a jellyfin/plex server".
When do we coin a new term? Or do we? Does "vpn" turn into a word like "truck" where it's only the context that tells you if we're talking about a 2 axle pickup truck in a home depot parking lot or something pulling a 40ft container unit?
How do authoritarian regimes differentiate business and consumer network traffic, for the purpose of inspection and decryption, censorship of specific content, or blocking of specific protocols? This also overlaps with net neutrality and dump pipes vs. content-centric metering.
Company VPN most likely goes to set IP address associated with a business. And this is most likely a rather static thing. So tracking data going there is most likely legitimate. And well on other side they can make whatever comes out from business IP a problem for business.
That's where my head was at. When i hear my colleagues talk about a VPN, i'm thinking about an IPSEC tunnel and an afternoon of swearing at ios on some outdated ASA. When I hear regular people talking about a VPN, my mind immediately goes to "oh, so you want to watch rick and morty on netflix and don't know anybody hosting a jellyfin/plex server".
When do we coin a new term? Or do we? Does "vpn" turn into a word like "truck" where it's only the context that tells you if we're talking about a 2 axle pickup truck in a home depot parking lot or something pulling a 40ft container unit?