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Re: Comcast@Home bans VPNs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Wayner)
Mon Aug 21 12:49:58 2000
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From: Peter Wayner <pcw2@flyzone.com>
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Is making an SSL connection creating a VPN? It's really not much
different in an abstract sense. Most applications are using browsers
as interfaces anyway. So I think this will only encourage businesses
to set up SSL server/client models instead of general VPNs.
-Peter
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