Hacker News Reader

- Default route is over tor and you didn't make an exception for ssh.

- Hide where you are in the world from your employer, who owns the server. (On vacation?)

- You're hacking the server.

Tor sounds like just about the worst possible way to hide what you're doing from your employer. Why would you not proxy through... your house?

I did exactly that as an intern. The boss blocked traffic for everything except tcp 80 and 443 in an attempt to block IM. I set up a tunnel to my house on one of those ports and arp cache poisoned my coworkers so I was their default gw. Only the boss still had filtered Internet and didn't understand how.

Hehe, that's funny. There are not that many opportunities to use your knowledge about the plumbing of the internet to good effect but that definitely was one of them.

And 4) you're the owner of the server, which is paid in bitcoin and hosted at a "bulletproof provider", and you want to leave no trace back to your "real" IP address should the authorities ever manage to seize it. Often the case for piracy, drug marketplaces and CSAM.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com