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Re: interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering

From: Chris Brenton <cbrenton () chrisbrenton org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:38:14 -0500


On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 17:11, Eric Kuhnke wrote:


And if he fails, what with the fact that sending all Internet traffic in 
the whole country through a single chokepoint obviously creates a single 
point of failure, all Net traffic in Saudi Arabia stops.


Not sure if its still the same setup, but up till 2 years ago this
consisted of 6 HTTP proxies sitting on the same class C. Best part was
they were _open_ proxies, so it was not uncommon to have a .net or .uk
attacker bounce through them on the way to attacking your site. 

Oh joy...
C

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