Using Brave's “Private Window with Tor” could get you fired

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Post by UnquietTinkerer » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 4:35 PM UTC

Using Brave's “Private Window with Tor” could get you fired
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Post by Lordarminius » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:29 PM UTC

I skimmed through the reddit thread but couldn't find an answer. Why do companies not want you using Tor ?

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Post by JohnTHaller » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:32 PM UTC

In the interim, have the IT folks setup a group policy to disable Brave's Tor feature so no one else accidentally gets caught in this: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039248271-Gro...

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Post by nitrogen » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

Lordarminius wrote: post #2

I skimmed through the reddit thread but couldn't find an answer. Why do companies not want you using Tor ?

Speculation: it looks a lot like a data exfiltration attempt, or like malware trying to reach its control network.

Just don't do things unrelated to work using work resources.

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Post by JohnTHaller » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:34 PM UTC

Lordarminius wrote: post #2

I skimmed through the reddit thread but couldn't find an answer. Why do companies not want you using Tor ?

Tor enables content that work can't monitor or block. And it's associated with child porn, dark web drug networks, sex trafficking, and similar. In reality, it's a small part of Tor. In the media, that's all it's used for.

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Post by chasil » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

Lordarminius wrote: post #2

I skimmed through the reddit thread but couldn't find an answer. Why do companies not want you using Tor ?

I've never used Onionshare, but it would allow untraceable file transfers bidirectionally through any (permitting) corporate firewall, and keybridging/mitm cert rewrites could not see into the session.

https://onionshare.org/

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Post by judge2020 » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:42 PM UTC

JohnTHaller wrote: post #5

Lordarminius wrote: post #2

I skimmed through the reddit thread but couldn't find an answer. Why do companies not want you using Tor ?

Tor enables content that work can't monitor or block. And it's associated with child porn, dark web drug networks, sex trafficking, and similar. In reality, it's a small part of Tor. In the media, that's all it's used for.

The biggest use statistically is bot and malicious traffic.

> Based on data across the CloudFlare network, 94% of requests that we see across the Tor network are per se malicious.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/#:~:text=Ba....

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Post by jp42 » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:43 PM UTC

Its not allowed to installed in my company since long time.

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Post by brendoelfrendo » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:43 PM UTC

Lordarminius wrote: post #2

I skimmed through the reddit thread but couldn't find an answer. Why do companies not want you using Tor ?

Every company I've worked for has had DLP, firewalls, and content filtering in place, and circumventing those is a violation of acceptable use policies, and thus grounds for termination... so it seems pretty cut and dry to me.

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Post by kgwxd » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:44 PM UTC

I once triggered my domain account and PC intranet connection to be disabled because I started a Linux ISO download via BitTorrent. I didn't get in any trouble. Assuming this is even real, it's obviously just an example of bad management or there's more to the firing than what's being said.