&quot;More and companies are opening up their firewalls outbound because it makes developers feel warm and fuzzy.&quot; - this is the <i>actual</i> issue, and <i>should</i> fail you in the audit: precisely because it is a major vulnerability which can be abused in 10^128 different ways.<p>Running around screaming &quot;OMG OMG, the tool designed to tunnel over the network can be used to tunnel over the network, TEH SKY IS FALLING!!1!!!&quot; is even somewhat funny in this context.