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Dylan16807today at 3:39 AM1 replyview on HN

If you're allowing direct https out, how are you stopping exfiltration?

Maybe https is routed through a monitoring proxy, but in the situation of allowing ssh the ssh wouldn't be going though one. So I still don't see the point of restricting outgoing ports on a machine that's allowed to ssh out.


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9devtoday at 7:58 AM

You can't, reasonably. It's just a heuristic against many exploits using non-standard ports to avoid detection by proxies or traffic inspection utilities.