On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:14:52AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Some places allow tor for personal use for the explicit reason that > they don't wish to be involved with policing employees freetime > traffic on break, want to offer segregation, etc, in exactly the same > way they don't regulate your cell phones.
Isn't the fact that mobile phones exist - and thus employees don't depend on their employer's Internet connection during working hours - a reason why companies blocking Tor isn't too big a deal? I know companies that have a separate WiFi network in the building, not connected to the corporate network, that employees can use to get a good connection on their mobile devices (or personal laptops). They could use Tor or VPNs too. A company that blocks Tor because it's worried its employees are up to no good should change the way it views its employees. A company overly worried about employees using Tor to exfiltrate sensitive data should consider blocking the whole of the Internet, or - more realisticly - store sensitive data in a way that access is restricted to those that really need it. But a company that blocks Tor because, as IBM puts it, a lot of malicious actors use Tor is making a sensible security decision. Martijn -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
