With the industry standard being a split VPN with anything corporate/intranet going over the tunnel, I'm amazed that this is still an issue in 2026.
My old cellular device wouldn't allow me to connect to any company resources unless I had the VPN going period, it didn't matter what network I was on and if it detected anything weird or wrong in the entire process it just never connected.
This is a thing as old as wifi itself, whoever uses public wifi without a VPN and DNS over HTTPS is an idiot
(Well, i wouldn't use a public wifi anyway if i have to login to accounts tbh)
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Seimhe@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 33d
The last large corpo I worked for, their laptops would not connect to anything other than intranet unless the VPN application was running first.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 33d
More and more of our clients are using VDIs (cloud based VM desktops) to which you connect to with complex 2FA.
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 33d
I know my partner only uses hotspots when travelling.
Seppo@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 33d
I feel like this has been a thing for as long as there have been WiFi?
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 33d
Back before HTTPS everywhere I considered setting up an Upside-down-ternet on an open WiFi. Never got around to it though.
Pika@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 33d
With the industry standard being a split VPN with anything corporate/intranet going over the tunnel, I'm amazed that this is still an issue in 2026.
My old cellular device wouldn't allow me to connect to any company resources unless I had the VPN going period, it didn't matter what network I was on and if it detected anything weird or wrong in the entire process it just never connected.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 1 pts · 33d
This is a thing as old as wifi itself, whoever uses public wifi without a VPN and DNS over HTTPS is an idiot (Well, i wouldn't use a public wifi anyway if i have to login to accounts tbh)
whereitsat@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 33d
why should anyone care about that?