My company is considering moving to full-time VPN access for remote users (including me). So I guess this will affect me too?
Very doubtful. In the unlikely event your access to geekhack is routed through your corporate VPN, it will appear to the GH servers as whatever IP your employer is, which almost certainly isnt going to be on one of banned pirate/spammer IP blocks.
There are two types of corporate VPNs:
- Full tunnel: where
all your traffic gets routed through the corporate VPN regardless of destination
- Split tunnel: where only the traffic destined for your employers LAN is routed through the VPN
As a remote user my guess is that you will be using a split tunnel VPN. In this scenario, supposing you worked for Microsoft, only traffic destined for microsoft.com and/or whatever IP blocks Microsoft uses on their internal network would traverse the VPN tunnel and all of your other traffic (google, facebook, redtube, etc) will get routed out your residential ISP like normal.
However, if your employer wanted to monitor everything you're doing on the internet while on company time, they may choose to implement a full tunnel solution so that they can tell if you're surfing facebook when you should be filling out TPS reports.