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Leaving computers on after work? Chilly8 10-14-2007
Posted by Chilly8 on October 14, 2007, 9:35 am
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I thought virtually any employer around would require you to turn your
work PC off at the end of the day. I find that some of the Tor relay
nodes are on corporate networks, and some employees have Tor
relay nodes running on them all weekend. I can find this by surfing
my web site through Tor, and looking at the access log, and I see
that there is one node on a corporate network in Germany that
some employee is turning into a Tor relay node all weekend. I
would think that any employer would not allow someone to leave
their computer on after they leave work, but someone on a corporate
network in Berlin is running a Tor relay node on their work PC,
after they leave work for the day.

There are two methods for creating Tor nodes. The first, is
to create a relay node requiring the Tor software to use, then
the other is to install the Tor software on a server, but configure it
to work as a public Tor proxy, and anybody can access, Tor
software not required, that routes their traffic ontothe Tor network.
That is what I operate on my server. Anybody around the world
can access Tor from Tor entry servers, like mine, without having
to install the client software. Very handy on work or school PCs
where the machine is locked down to prevent installation of any
software. Just change your browser setting to any public Tor
entry server, and you are good to go.




Posted by Leythos on October 15, 2007, 7:20 am
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> Just change your browser setting to any public Tor
> entry server, and you are good to go.

And when the connection is found by the IT department in a network that
is not properly secured - they will be disciplined for company policy
violations. In the case of a properly secured company network your "just
change your settings... " would not work, as they would not be permitted
access to non-company approved websites.

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- Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a
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Posted by Chilly8 on October 15, 2007, 8:45 am
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>> Just change your browser setting to any public Tor
>> entry server, and you are good to go.
>
> And when the connection is found by the IT department in a network that
> is not properly secured - they will be disciplined for company policy
> violations. In the case of a properly secured company network your "just
> change your settings... " would not work, as they would not be permitted
> access to non-company approved websites.


Well, I will say this. We are covering the WTA Zurich tennis tournamant
this week, and I am seeing connections from corporate networks all over
Europe. I have 136 on my message board right now, and I would say
about 90 percent of them are coming from corporate networks all over
Europe.

When doing sports and talk programming, there are other feeds I turn
on, and between that, and the message boards, I am pulling about 9.6
megabits transfer rate right now, and nearly allow it from corporate
networks in Europe, and some users on corporate networks in the
Eastern USA are conecting now, as the workday is just about to
begin there. The number of people connecting from coroprate
networks in Europe to various forms of our coverage right now,
is staggering.

As the workday begins for you there, someone could be tuned in
to one of the various forms of our coverage, right now, and you
might not spot it right away, if they are using the message forums.




Posted by Chilly8 on October 15, 2007, 8:58 am
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> X-No-Archive: Yes
>
>>> Just change your browser setting to any public Tor
>>> entry server, and you are good to go.
>>
>> And when the connection is found by the IT department in a network that
>> is not properly secured - they will be disciplined for company policy
>> violations. In the case of a properly secured company network your "just
>> change your settings... " would not work, as they would not be permitted
>> access to non-company approved websites.
>
>
> Well, I will say this. We are covering the WTA Zurich tennis tournamant
> this week, and I am seeing connections from corporate networks all over
> Europe. I have 136 on my message board right now, and I would say
> about 90 percent of them are coming from corporate networks all over
> Europe.
>
> When doing sports and talk programming, there are other feeds I turn
> on, and between that, and the message boards, I am pulling about 9.6
> megabits transfer rate right now, and nearly allow it from corporate
> networks in Europe, and some users on corporate networks in the
> Eastern USA are conecting now, as the workday is just about to
> begin there. The number of people connecting from coroprate
> networks in Europe to various forms of our coverage right now,
> is staggering.
>
> As the workday begins for you there, someone could be tuned in
> to one of the various forms of our coverage, right now, and you
> might not spot it right away, if they are using the message forums.


I have a bloke from England in one of my chat rooms dedicated to
coverage who is using encrypted tunnel to his residential DSL
line on these new 25 megabit lines they have in England, and the
he is tunneling out from there to my server, and he this guy is
even BOASTING in my chat room right now that the boss
will NEVER catch him, and he may well be right, if he is
using strong enough encryption.




Posted by Leythos on October 15, 2007, 10:52 am
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> I have a bloke from England in one of my chat rooms dedicated to
> coverage who is using encrypted tunnel to his residential DSL
> line on these new 25 megabit lines they have in England, and the
> he is tunneling out from there to my server, and he this guy is
> even BOASTING in my chat room right now that the boss
> will NEVER catch him, and he may well be right, if he is
> using strong enough encryption.

Like you, there are a lot of DUMB people out there.

If his employer has a firewall that can provide real-time monitoring,
the tunnel is very easy to spot and will get the chap booted. Tunnels
are the easiest things to see/detect.

--

Leythos
- Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
- Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
spam999free@rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)

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