What about updating the DNS settings to OpenDNS which has its own free
filter control - that allows you to deselect "Proxy/Anonymizer"


On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Paul Mansfield
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On 06/01/10 16:46, Robert Mortimer wrote:
> >>> On 05/01/10 16:11, Luke Jaeger wrote:
> >>>> Has anyone had any success blocking Tor thru pfsense/squidguard?
> >> Some
> >>> of
> >>>> our savvier students are starting to use it to get around the
> >> content
> >>>> filters ...
> >>>
> >>> that's a classic case of having a "permit any + deny specific"
> >> policy.
> >>> You'll have to turn it round, make it "deny all + permit specific",
> >> set
> >>> up an http proxy with same policy and (don't allow CONNECT except
> >> under
> >>> fine control) and don't allow anything else out of your network
> >> except
> >>> that explicitly wanted.
> >>>
> >>
> >> You are wrong, "deny all + permit specific" is not enough for blocking
> >>
> >> TOR.
> >>
> >
> > Depends how specific you are - if it looks like web access then it's
> going to be hard to be specific enough without being too specific
>
> well, I did say to use a web proxy, which also has a whitelist of
> permitted sites, you literally only let your users access very specific
> services and hosts on the internet, and NOTHING else is allowed.
>
> you're now going to say "but that's unmanageable", and I have two answers.
> 1/ security is a moving target and hard work, so if you can't trust your
> users you'll have to have the resources to manage their access effectively
> OR
> 2/ educate your users so that you can trust them and have suitable
> contracts and measures in place to punish them so that they will follow
> procedures
>
>
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