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Originally Posted by Azure
How much functionality? Well, for the most part the Tor routers are being used to access stuff that the content filters are blocking.
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I was thinking for a company you could block all ports except 80 and 443, which would basically mess up everything except web browsing.. Obviously not the way you want to go in this case. And a savvy user will just reconfigure the software to work over the open ports anyway.
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Originally Posted by Azure
But that isn't the real issue. As I understand it, people using the onion routers are creating some sort of bottleneck which is slowing down the gateway appliances. This is in turn slowing down the internet and causing a problem for the numerous businesses amongst the colonies that use the HBNI.
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Hm, well with unlimited $$ they could get some hardware that would allow them to do traffic shaping, give the important traffic higher priority.
That's what big things like Shaw do, they have hardware that will do deep packet inspection and decide based on the content of the packet (as much as can be deduced anyway, if it's encrypted then it's more limited).
Blocking known proxy and tor IP's would still probably be the more effective, the difficulty is finding the right IPs to block.