Tor VoIP, & etc...

Shawn K. Quinn skquinn at speakeasy.net
Sun Sep 4 23:13:50 PDT 2005


On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 21:03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
> SQ wrote...
> 
> > A Houston (TX, USA) public library? Could be next to impossible, as
> > well as excellent cause for revocation of your library card and
> > criminal prosecution if caught.
> 
> Well, the idea would be not to get caught. I'm thinking basically of just 
> adding one of those $40 Tor nubbins at the end of a USB cable and then 
> tucking the nubbin under the carpet with a sign saying, "DO NOT TOUCH". If 
> it lasts a month then it might be money well spent, particularly if Al Qaeda 
> successfully nukes DC.

> Damn. They blocked Telnet? They might as well just block TCP/IP. Do
> they do this by blocking the likely ports or by merely de-balling the
> protocol stack somehow? I assume Tor is smart enough to try various
> open ports....

All you get access to as a library card holder is a Web browser (or
pathetic excuse for same, as I think it's a hacked-up IE).

The computers at the Houston libraries don't allow access to the USB
ports from what I have seen, and in order to get access to anything
besides a Web browser you would probably need to reboot the machine and
you then have maybe 15-20 minutes before a librarian notices you. Now,
the Harris County libraries might be different; I have not gone to one.

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net>





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