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		setopt on Oct 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perfctl: Stealthy malware targeting Linux servers I’d 100% understand if they want to block it… but for a while I ran my home server as a Tor hidden service just to get free dynamic DNS and NAT traversal, and could SSH into it from my office by accessing Tor from there. That’s arguably a legitimate use case.

tptacek on Oct 4, 2024 [–]

Literally one of the specific, enumerated use cases corporate networks have for blocking this stuff.

setopt on Oct 5, 2024 | [–]

I should perhaps have added this wasn’t a “corporate” network but a university network. As a PhD candidate that was my “work network”.

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