Re: Blocking Proxy/HTTP Tunneliing servers

[Gary Flynn <flynngn () JMU EDU>]

Joel Rosenblatt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I can't answer this because we do not censor web access.
>
> A bigger question in my mind is how many institutions think that
> censorship of web access is acceptable and for what reasons?

We don't censor in the conventional sense although we'll
statically and/or dynamically block sites exploiting
visitors' browsers, serving malware such as that led to
by links in instant messages, acting as BOT controllers,
acting as phishing destinations, etc.

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Gary Flynn
Security Engineer
James Madison University
www.jmu.edu/computing/security