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Old Jul 26, 2025 | 5:26 pm
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Originally Posted by 5khours
They must have a bunch of nitwits running their IT department. How many hackers don't have access to a VPN? They start international routes and their IT strategy is too block passengers from getting international access to their website. Total morons!
Fully agreed, but to my surprise my corporate MS365 account has the same kind of protection, by default you cannot login from abroad (unless you request a travel exception for specific countries), and a VPN completely bypasses that as well

So even Microsoft seems to think this is a good idea...
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