Why not just use your smartphone or something instead? As an infosec guy, I try to maintain the customer service-oriented attitude of "Oh, you snuck something

Why not just use your smartphone or something instead? As an infosec guy, I try to maintain the customer service-oriented attitude of "Oh, you snuck something past me? Nice one! Don't do it again. Here's why..." Then again, I am fortunate enough to work in a semi-open academic/clinical/research environment, where if you cross-your-heart-and-hope-to-die promise me that you won't misuse BitTorrent for warez or porn and that you truly have a business need for it, I'll entertain your request for a firewall/QoS exception. But if you work at the kind of place that is manned by totally bonkers jackbooted thugs, they won't be so lenient. When they find you, you could lose your job or worse. It sucks, but the network's not yours to hack around even if you really do know better than the people operating it (and you probably do). (signed, a former firewall piercer extraordinaire) ((I got so fed up with one customer's stupid firewall rules that I bought a dial-up subscription to Earthlink and an adapter that would let me hook my modem up to the handset of their digital phone.)) (((Holy shit! Earthlink still has dialup service!)))