Back before HTTPS everywhere I considered setting up an Upside-down-ternet on an open WiFi. Never got around to it though.
The last large corpo I worked for, their laptops would not connect to anything other than intranet unless the VPN application was running first.
I know my partner only uses hotspots when travelling.
More and more of our clients are using VDIs (cloud based VM desktops) to which you connect to with complex 2FA.
With the industry standard being a split VPN with anything corporate/intranet going over the tunnel, I’m amazed that this is still an issue in 2026.
My old cellular device wouldn’t allow me to connect to any company resources unless I had the VPN going period, it didn’t matter what network I was on and if it detected anything weird or wrong in the entire process it just never connected.
I feel like this has been a thing for as long as there have been WiFi?
This is a thing as old as wifi itself, whoever uses public wifi without a VPN and DNS over HTTPS is an idiot (Well, i wouldn’t use a public wifi anyway if i have to login to accounts tbh)
why should anyone care about that?
