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Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They can do that, but in my experience they do not, if only because it would be a vector for external attackers (who could control that machine via those connections routed directly to the Internet) to get into the company's intranet without actually having to go through the company's firewalls.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

This is what strong endpoint security is for. EDR software is also common. Routing everyone's internet traffic is pretty strenuous.