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I assume this is in reference to the article about Google opening up their corporate tools/services to their users on the Internet, but I've seen this MOMA login page (at least what I call it) before last year and probably before that too. On that premise I assume @google.com users have been able to log in from the Internet for a while, anyone have some light to shed on what's recently changed? :)

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It is the MOMA login page :) From my time at google (around 6 months ago), you can access this page for a lot of services, but some of them will be accessible only from the intranet (or if you login to a VPN from the internet). What has changed is the number of services that are now accessible from the internet.

Also, when I was working there, I could not remote into my desktop from my company laptop from my home without signing onto VPN. Not sure of that has changed, but they wished to phase out VPN completely.

for ssh, they use chrome ssh plugin and connect via ssh-over-http now. no vpn needed.

It's not not just MOMA, but any corporate website. The assumption of "oh, they're on the corp network, they must be a googler" has been removed.

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