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Would there be any potential problem of hosting public and/or private (vpn) services in a school office? (lemmy.selfhostcat.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Obviously if public the material would be important. But private, only over ssh or vpn? Free internet, power, and backup!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's definitely not legal, especially if your school is funded by the public. That "free internet and power" is paid by someone, and if it's the public, it's kind of a dick move.

They can't see what's in your ssh or VPN tunnels necessarily, but they can usually see where the packets are originating from and going to. So if you're say, accessing it from home directly to the server via VPN or SSH, if you're not doing so using a full VPN service like Mull, they'll be able to see the origin IP of your SSH or VPN handshakes, and thus your home IP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It's definitely not legal, especially if your school is funded by the public. That "free internet and power" is paid by someone, and if it's the public, it's kind of a dick move.

This is assuming a lot and I think incorrect. I use the power and internet everyday as part of my job. Doing research and that which is related falls under that. And no it’s not funded by the public… but your point is well taken!

Thanks for sharing info on ssh. That’s helpful. If I’m sshing via Tailscale I wonder what IP they see? The Tailscale 100. one?