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maybe its good thing, vpn is the security tool most people think

vpn are good to workaround censorship ,

but i agree with the opinion that they are not a great security tool

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Companies use VPN technology to access their internal network over the internet.

assume everything in the internal network is compromised already. the moat and castle model is dead.

https://thenewstack.io/why-the-castle-and-moat-approach-to-s...

sales blogs for security?

A VPN can be required to access internal network(s) without implying a lack of further roadblocks/restrictions/authorization checks/etc.

is the real world that disciplined?

It's fairly typical, this. The world and his wife hears 'VPN' through the myriad of advertising vectors they're bombarded with and assume the advertised use case is the only use case.

The 'P' in VPN is what confuses them I assume.

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