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[–] [email protected] 74 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I dunno man. I'm convinced that pretty much any mention of VPN these days is just an ad for vpns. That's with this article looks like.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, you're not wrong that the article kinda sets itself up for the "lookit our recommended VPNs" pitch.

There's no way Microsoft would purposefully disable VPNs from working. I can guarantee that they require VPNs for thousands of roles in the company, let alone breaking it for government agencies that require VPNs, etc.

It is good to know that a specific update can break something ahead of time, though. Then at least you can avoid it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

There's no way Microsoft would purposefully disable VPNs from working

No, but they've done it accidentally before.

One time a few years ago it broke all LT2P VPN's unless you removed a specific KB########.

IIRC, six months later there was still no fix.

I think it's been fixed now, though.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

My workplace requires VPN for Web sites that are authenticated, require 2FA and are encrypted. It's infuriatingly stupid. I feel like someone higher up got sold a useless contract by a good VPN salesperson.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I applaud your IT leadership/CIO for being willing to do this.

Most companies are far too passive and think "aIt won't happen to us".

I've seen companies scammed of $1mil in a single transaction because they sent credentials in email, to a scammer.

Had they used a credential management system this wouldn't have happened.

Every layer of security helps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, maybe they should encrypt it a third time. You never know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Its actually real news