[TriLUG] blocking outbound port 22

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

maybe he's trying to prevent people scp'ing data out of the company?

William Sutton

On Wed, 7 Oct 2015, Wes Garrison via TriLUG wrote:

> I ran into a situation today I've never seen before.
>
> I was working at an engineering firm and their IT guy had all outbound
> traffic on port 22 blocked.
>
> Is there any sane reason to do this?
>
> I can't think of any reason to block SSH, but maybe I'm missing something.
>
> -Wes
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