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Re: Phishing for Open Proxies: Baby Squid Hooked In Under 18 Hours


From: TheGesus <thegesus () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:10:29 -0500

[snip]

In other words, if the Korean door-knocker had succeeded, our server would have been added to a list of open proxies.

[snip]


So... what else did they expect?  If you run an open proxy, your IP
address will get published.

Moral: Don't run an open proxy.

duh.

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