I’ve asked librarians a full range of tech questions about what works, what’s blocked, what’s allowed… they /never/ have a clue because of outsourcing. In the 90s, I would say you are spot on. Things have evolved to where the policy is decided non-transparently, it’s outsourced to an unreachable company, and librarians are simply as uninformed as the public. Trial and error. If you read the AUPs it never says Tor is banned at libraries, but they simply block it. Experimentation is the way people get answers in my area.
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BolexForSoup@kbin.social 2 months agoOr you could just ask them to avoid confusion as it takes 5 seconds and they may have a way of doing things that you don't know about? It's respectful and it potentially saves you a lot of hassle if it doesn't work and you need to troubleshoot it.
coffeeClean@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Icalasari@fedia.io 2 months ago
Yeah. For all we know, there could be a sign in/out thing at the desk for if you use ethernet - She DID think OP was taking one of the library's cables after all, which implies the public has access, possibly through a sign in/out system