While it is inaccurate to call it VPN, it's also not descriptive to call it a proxy. It's more than that; it's really a proxy split in half with a private tunne

While it is inaccurate to call it VPN, it's also not descriptive to call it a proxy. It's more than that; it's really a proxy split in half with a private tunnel between the two halves. So really neither term is good. I don't know of a better one, though.