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by tptacek 616 days ago
You could make the same point without kicking up all the drama by saying there are close to zero legitimate reasons for a work computer on a work network to be reaching out to Tor.
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I’d 100% understand if they want to block it… but for a while I ran my home server as a Tor hidden service just to get free dynamic DNS and NAT traversal, and could SSH into it from my office by accessing Tor from there. That’s arguably a legitimate use case.
Literally one of the specific, enumerated use cases corporate networks have for blocking this stuff.
I should perhaps have added this wasn’t a “corporate” network but a university network. As a PhD candidate that was my “work network”.