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"Recently on a cruise ship I found my SSH access blocked." ... "And HTTP proxies were blocked too." What would the possible rationale for this be ? I can un
by rsync 7y ago
"Recently on a cruise ship I found my SSH access blocked."
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"And HTTP proxies were blocked too."
What would the possible rationale for this be ? I can understand these being blocked in, say, a non-western hotel inside mainland China ... or in a .gov lobby ... or ... ?
But on a cruise ship - the maintainers of that network must know that guests on the ship might have remote work to do - or just workflows that involve something beyond "the web".
Further, the bandwidth generated by web usage typically dwarfs bandwidth usage over VPNs or actual SSH ...
What are they thinking ?
- theamk 7y agoThey have likely blocked every port except 80 and 443, in a misguided attempt to either limit bandwidth or increase security. I have seen such systems in some hospitals, it was pretty annoying.
- paulddraper 7y agoA bandwidth thing. They also had bandwidth limits, but I think they were playing big brother to stop disgruntled customers from running out after watching 8.5 minutes of Netflix. > that network must know that guests on the ship might have remote work to do - or just workflows that involve something beyond "the web" You'd think so. This particular cruise line (Holland America) is known for its older travelers.