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Written by Jo on 2025-01-21 at 15:45

Wouldn't it be cool if I could work from anywhere in the world, and my employer thought I was still working from inside my city?

Time for me to test some VPN shenanigans.

Actually does this work? I setup my home router (or a friends) to host a VPN [this is my city IP]. Setup my other traveling router to push all network traffic through the home VPN. Connect my work computer through my traveling router, and use AnyConnect like I normally do.

Basically route my corporate VPN through my own VPN. So corporate always sees an IP address that's close to my employment address.

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Written by The Tech Lord ⊕ `Lex Pendragon on 2025-01-21 at 15:47

@ElsaPreme If you have a nearby location, can you drop a box at a location that you then remotely take over to work?

You need someone near it to go reboot it as needed, but as long as you can get into the box and the power stays on, you are working on a system at the right place, even if you aren't there.

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Written by Jo on 2025-01-21 at 15:52

@LexPendragon

I can't remote into my work computer though. Literally no way.

I can drop another box, or network device, locally and have someone there to trouble shoot it Signal or whatever if needed.

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Written by The Tech Lord ⊕ `Lex Pendragon on 2025-01-21 at 15:54

@ElsaPreme Can you set up a VM host and image your work box to live on top of your VM host?

(This is all purely a fun thought experiment, I can't imagine this would ever be stable enough to wager your job/income on.)

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Written by Jo on 2025-01-21 at 15:58

@LexPendragon

Nope. Infosec here is actually pretty good. My laptop is so incredibly locked down.

I get nasty emails and/or phone calls if I plug in a USB storage device.

Even if I could do it I would be insta fired if they found out. Not worth the risk.

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