[Lilux-help] telnet or ssh through coward firewalls

[Brent Frère]

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Jay Christnach wrote:

> Why should they block an ssh outgoing connection?

At BEI - EIB (European Investment Bank), even port 443 is blocked, which 
means that for security reasons, the SECURE http port (https) is not 
allowed...

This way, the use of sites exchanging sensitive information is not 
possible, or you have to switch to the unsecure mode (http) if available...

For me, as long as this is the policy applied to a private network, it's 
OK. It's the choice of the company to decide what service is provided to 
the employee. But for ISPs, it's not acceptable. If all ports that might 
contains potentially risks are closed, then there is no more Internet 
access. More than that, I consider some providers, such as BCE, Colt, 
MCI, Equant, Alternet as telecom providers, not simple end-users ISPs, 
and thus they are giving TOTAL FREE access to the Internet. That's what 
I'm expecting from an Internet connection, but I'm not a "normal" 
end-user...

Just my 0.1 eurocent

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