TOR Blocked at Universities

Sebastian Hahn mail at sebastianhahn.net
Fri Feb 12 16:54:39 UTC 2010


On Feb 12, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Michael Holstein wrote:

>
>> Why not simply block that entire network in the Exit policy?
>
> You're missing the point .. we already blocked our *own* /16 in the
> exit. The problem was the thousands of academic journals, all of which
> have distinct addresses, that consider any traffic from our /16 as  
> being
> "on campus" and thus not needing of authentication. As the exit node
> resided with that /16, any traffic sourced from it would appear to be
> "on campus" from the perspective of the other entity.

Indeed, I missed the point entirely. My apologies. I somehow thought  
people from the outside were accessing ressources within your  
university.

Sebastian
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