Ive got a few UK coworkers that will be out of the job if anything disables VPNs. They voted for that mess now they can sleep in their 1/3 salary local jobs too.
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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Enterprises will love that. A perfect excuse to end wfh. However, this will cripple business travelers. I’m sure there’ll be some exception for corporations where they can exercise maximum control over their employees while still being allowed to generate capital.
Hey UK: suck it.
atticus88th@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
gaiussabinus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A VPN is just a proxy. I don’t see how this would be enforced.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
An encrypted proxy. Thats a pretty hefty distinction.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They couldn’t switch off VPNs for businesses. I work in a hospital and we use VPNs to create secure tunnels to other third party health care companies as well as NHS adjacent health services amongst other things. This is to protect patient sensitive data amongst other things. This would cripple our service and go against NHS england and government requirements for the secure transfer and sharing of data.
This would have to be public VPNs only. Despite the fact that it would be complete bullshit either way.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Exactly. They best they could hope to do would be to create an exemption for businesses in which case I open my own fapping business.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
and now you have to pay lotsbof business taxes even if you don’t have any income
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Unless things have changed massively in the UK in the last 5 years or so, in my actual experience you don’t unless you actually make a profit.
The yearly baseline costs of opening and operating a Limited company in the UK are pretty low (less than £100 if I remember it correctly).
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I shall pay my debt in crusty socks.
blargle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Well, you could just go back to sending stuff by fax machine forever, but then instead of even using the fax machine to sync patient data just make the patients fill out their own entire medical history from scratch every time they go to a different doctor and take their word for it.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Its 2025, we no longer need such silly things. Don’t worry, its for the greater good.