Not to jump in with both feet, but here's some possible starting text ideas for the "IT People Use Tor" section... Ahem... "IT Professionals use Tor: * To verify IP based firewall rules: A firewall may have some policies that only allow certain IP addresses or ranges. Tor can be used to verify those configurations by using an IP number outside of the company's alloted IP block. * To bypass their own security systems for sensitive professional activities: For instance, a company may have a strict policy regarding the material employees can view on the internet. A log review reveals a possible violation. Tor can be used to verify the information without an exception being put into corporate security systems. * To connect back to deployed services: A network engineer can use Tor to remotely connect back to services, without the need for an external machine and user account, as part of operational testing. * To access internet resources: Acceptable use policy for IT Staff and normal employees is usually different. Tor can allow unfettered access to the internet while leaving standard security policies in place. * To work around ISP network outages: Sometimes when an ISP is having routing or DNS problems, Tor can make internet resources available, when the actual ISP is malfunctioning. This can be invaluable is crisis situations. * The CTO is an asshat: Your CTO is a golf loving moron who hasn't spent any time in front of a computer since 1988. He bought some crappy appliance, which sits at the edge of your network, tracking your activity, while you track everyone else's activity- including his. This Mongolian Cluster Fuck never seems to end. Root Cause Analysis sessions go on for days on end. Plans are made to DDOS his Comcast cable connection, one of your assistants claims he can bed the CTOs wife, and the accounting system is missing data (really- it's the CTOs missing porn collection). Cooler heads prevail... you just install Tor and read Slashdot. Ok, maybe the last one isn't salvageable. I gave it my best shot. Michael ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE