People trying to circumvent censorship often look like "attackers". When I was in middle school, I needed to research a paper in the school library computers.

People trying to circumvent censorship often look like "attackers". When I was in middle school, I needed to research a paper in the school library computers. Their stupid computers were always messed up; first the proxy settings weren't configured in half the machines (I fixed that, and got scolded), then the anti-virus wasn't working (fixed that, got scolded). Then the proxies wouldn't let me search for my paper. I was a budding hacker, so I figured out the numbering trick mentioned in this article, and was able to bypass the proxy and do my research for my paper. This was a long time ago but I bet the same situation is just as relevant today. (Doubtful that you'd use curl in this scenario, but nice to know they are preserving useful functionality rather than throwing it out)