You really are not familiar with the concepts of company policy and liability, are you? Whether there is an effective technical restriction in place is relevant to the question “can you run the thing”. It is irrelevant for the question “did you circumvent company policy?” and, subsequently, to the blame/firing that comes from it.
This is the exact same discussion people keep having about “government can’t block VPN” or “encryption can’t be broken” when the idea of a law forcing backdoors in services floats around. Sure, you can still use encryption, technically. But if there’s a law that say “encryption too strong to be broken is illegal”, then you’ll get arrested all the same, effective technical restriction or not.
You really are not familiar with the concepts of company policy and liability, are you? Whether there is an effective technical restriction in place is relevant to the question “can you run the thing”. It is irrelevant for the question “did you circumvent company policy?” and, subsequently, to the blame/firing that comes from it.
This is the exact same discussion people keep having about “government can’t block VPN” or “encryption can’t be broken” when the idea of a law forcing backdoors in services floats around. Sure, you can still use encryption, technically. But if there’s a law that say “encryption too strong to be broken is illegal”, then you’ll get arrested all the same, effective technical restriction or not.