[Lilux-help] telnet or ssh through coward firewalls

[Pascal Steichen]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:51:54PM +0200, Brent Frère wrote:
> 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...

I fully agree with you Brent : Internet acces means INTERNET access not port 25, 80 and 110 access ;)

ciao,
pst
> 
> Just my 0.1 eurocent
> 
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