I have a question regarding VPN usage in South Korea and Saudi Arabia. I may go for short term work in either South Korea or Saudi for a few months. Does anybody have any idea, how safe it is to use a VPN as a foreigner in these countries? Worse case scenario, can I use a VPN in a Azure VM and scp torrent downloaded files or something?

  • jeff 👨‍💻
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    2 months ago

    VPNs are super common for business reasons. A lot of business travelers are going to use a VPN to access files and services only available on their network.

    Using a big VPN might be risky; a self-hosted VPN should be less risky. I’d avoid torrenting though, even legal torrents.

    Can you ask your IT department their recommendations?