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What's are these "serious" applications?
by dewey 6y ago
What's are these "serious" applications?
- toyg 6y agoLoads of IM / webconf applications, at the moment.
- dewey 6y agoMy point is that that’s not less serious than a library supporting the BitTorrent protocol.
- toyg 6y agoI'm not sure I follow. Bittorrent is absolutely NOT a "serious" application from an enterprise perspective. Most companies don't use torrents and actively block the protocol (since the most common usages are unsavoury or related to entertainment, not business). Whereas IMs are an accepted part of business processes (i.e. "serious").
- risho 6y agocan they actually block it if you use a non-standard port and force encryption?
- the_mitsuhiko 6y agoEverything can be blocked.
- gruez 6y agoEverything can be blocked if you're willing to block everything else. Blocking something while leaving other services unaffected isn't trivial, and gets harder the smaller the data is. eg. if you want to block some bad guy from exfiltrating a 256 bit key, it's almost impossible to do because there are a million ways to do smuggle it out with stenography.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y ago> Whereas IMs are an accepted part of business processes There was a very long period when IMs were not acceptable and actively blocked, especially at financial institutions that have a legal obligation to log and retain all internal communication for X years. I saw this at many different firms for many years. That changed. perhaps torrent will, too. Nah, probably not :)
- design-material 6y agoWhile you're correct, it's important to remember: Enterprise-IT admins are morons
- jedieaston 6y agoZoom, Slack and Teams all use WebRTC for running their respective clients in the browser.
- monocasa 6y agoAnd in their desktop apps (at least for slack and zoom).
- Orphis 6y agoYou also have games and "remote control" apps that use WebRTC (controlling a computer or a robot).