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by Mashimo 1153 days ago
> Not to mention most companies nowadays have clear policies of (not) connecting to free public wifi's or even working in public spaces where your screen may be visible.

Why is that? Would a VPN not make it safe against most threat models? I mean assuming you are not working at a place where government actors are trying to target you specifically.

Or can they inject something to force the VPN to disable and hope non-encrypted data gets transmitted?

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I think it’s to be taken at face value — they don’t want unauthorised people seeing what’s on screen.