On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:09 PM, grarpamp grarpamp@gmail.com wrote:
C, there is also a tor-relays-universities list. Forwarding there to keep the initial chat primed.
Once you have buy in from legal, chairs, security, upstream, etc this can be a very strong position, often better than pay 'contract' of random ISP host. I have seen such 'outside' nets used for these not strictly mission things, such I suggest it in this thread. Different approach depends on if you can find and house a legitimate paper producing research purpose, or if you simply will run it for supporting freedom point of view.
Our experience is similar; after an initial period of discomfort (both I and my supervisor had "yes, the IDS will continue to get false positives on this host, it is not actually infected with a virus / ridiculously out of date on security patches / running Windows XP" form letters on tap for a while), the university has been very supportive.
We *were* asked to make sure that the exit policy denied access to library resources that the university has a contractual obligation to make available only to affiliates, but they gave us a list of IPs to blacklist, so that was no problem. You might want to mention up front that you can do that if they need you to.
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