[HECnet] I'm back

Paul_Koning at Dell.com Paul_Koning at Dell.com
Tue Apr 19 08:32:42 PDT 2016


> On Apr 19, 2016, at 7:45 AM, Fred <fcoffey at misernet.net> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Tony Blews wrote:
> 
>> Well, all my outgoing email from my company account has to be vetted by a manager. So I don't use it much.
> 
> .... wait.
> 
> What?
> 
> Many years ago (1998 timeframe?) I worked for a company where if you wanted to access anything other than a service on port 80 or 443 you had to go through their proxy which logged everything, but that's about the strictest place I worked for.

I've seen companies that implement a man in the middle attack on encrypted protocols, not just 443 but 22 (SSH) also.  If you don't watch out for "key mismatch" messages, you wouldn't even know it.

This is why I like TOR.

	paul




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