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I have friend who ZeroTier-ed over corp VPN (read: bypassed it completely) and installed necessary VPN accessing local thingies on his personal laptop.

The reason being (in his own words) - "it takes too much time and hassles to sign up to Corp VPN BS. And then it logs you off, timeouts, enforces stupid policies, etc...". His ZeroTier setup is more reliable and I suspect as secure as his startup VPN.

His faces (and realizes) potential risk of: "How come you were sign-ed up to our Corp network when our VPN provider was down?????".

No one (at his startup) knows about what he does and the reason is - he does lots of moonlighting and it's very convenient for him to:

1. Use single machine for work and off-work activities.

2. To protect himself against potential of his Corp to claim rights to his own projects.

He is vigilante-type of guy, in other words "don't tell me what i cannot do".

That said his corp and his corp's customers are super happy with his work and support.



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