Tor and app control solutions

Question

Tor looks very advanced in network intelligence, but before the target, the last, the first node, the firewall, the proxy, there's the computer himself !

What if Tor is blacklisted from a computer-installed app control software ?

For example Sophos can block it and i haven't found any solutions (considering the computer is protected from USB Boot and BIOS access, so using the controlled OS)

Any ideas ?

Answer 1

to make it as short & simple as possible: if this all is blocked/controlled, the solution is to use an other computer!

• as this all is blocked and you don't have access to it, i guess it is not your hardware.
• perhaps the owner of the hardware has good reasons to restrict the usage of his hardware.
  if not, you can ask him to loosen the restrictions (e.g. to use your own liveOS with your data/settings). - this also may have advantages for the hardware-owner, because he does not need an installed OS, worry about it's maintenance and probably save the hard-disk.
• i doubt you have the freedom to choose your internet connection as long as everything else is controlled but if so, you can use Orbot, Onion Pi or any other Tor-router/-proxy to route your traffic over Tor.
  but there are tons of things you have to observe (but maybe can't) and can go wrong, so i wouldn't recommend this.
• last but not least:
  on such an highly controlled environment (not by yourself) i wouldn't do anything sensitive, even if there were TorBrowser preinstalled. - who knows what is recorded or leaked by the OS, intentionally or by accident (malware, backdoors etc.)!?