[LUGSB] Tor at sunysb.edu

[Benjamin Bannier]

Josef Sipek wrote:
> You'd be surprised. The university has a rather picky firewall that does
> packet inspection and if it sees something it considers bad, it blocks it
> (try downloading any file via http with the .torrent extension, or watch
> some commands to get to an server while others don't when you try to
> connect to IRC).

Hmm. Difficult to do quick checks with a crippled ping ... maybe I'll
check this on a deeper level later.

Aside: Since tor uses encrypted packages they shouldn't be able to check
on package contents. If these packages are really filtered, the firewall
should use lists of tor nodes. And just in case they are really blocked:
blocking traffic just because it goes to tor nodes ... well ... anybody
sure this is not China?

b.