[107924] in Cypherpunks
Re: firewall circumvention
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bennett Haselton)
Thu Jan 28 20:26:39 1999
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:11:12 -0600
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bennett Haselton <bennett@peacefire.org>
In-Reply-To: <199901281925.UAA24526@replay.com>
Reply-To: Bennett Haselton <bennett@peacefire.org>
Check out
http://www.peacefire.org/bypass/Proxy
The software is a lot closer to completion than that page makes it sound
like. But it takes advantage of the inherent nature of
proxy-server/firewall models rather than weaknesses in a particular program.
-Bennett
At 08:25 PM 1/28/99 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Anonymous [mailto:nobody@replay.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 10:47 AM
>> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
>> Subject:
>>
>>
>> hey,
>>
>> i got a problem with my new anal as fuck employers.
>
>Me too. Except I've been here a couple of years. And it's not so much
>my employers as it is the dumb-as-posts administrators. And not only
>are they dumb as posts, but they've got that puerile Napolean complex
>common among their ilk.
>
>> they have set up a firewall that is so restrictive
>> that i can only use http protocol on port 80. even
>> https is denied! what i need/want to do is to access
>> one of my UNIX shell accounts from work, so i can do
>> shit like check mail, etc...
>
>Well at least I've got ftp and telnet. My guys have blocked every port
>below 1500 except a few common ones. All I wanna do is use ICQ. It'll
>take 'em two months to open up the right port(s).
>
>> i've tried shit like setting up remote java telnet
>> proxies, anon and non-anon proxies config'ed in my
>> browser, but none of that worked. besides sucking off
>> the sysadmin for an unrestricted UNIX, does anybody
>> have any good ideas? the pay is too good to consider
>> quitting and selling crack for a living, so that's not
>> an option...yet.
>
>Hah! And I'd LOVE to be able to show these dinks that there firewall is
>worthless. It's a WatchGuard Firebox 100. Anybody know any
>vulnerabilities?
>
>> i have heard about "tunnelling out" and shit like that,
>> and i have messed around with a few things, but have of
>> course had no luck, probably because i don't really know
>> how the fuck to do something like that.
>
>Me neither.
>
>> anyway, the policies and firewall at work suck shit and i
>> want to get around or through them.
>
>Me too!
>
>> any and all help, suggestions, comments, flames and insults
>> are of course welcome and greatly appreciated.
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> -- some poor bastard stuck in a high-paying job for a Swedish
>> company
>
>Thank from me too.
>
>-- some poor bastard who owns part of a kickass company but "borrows" a
>pipe from the majority shareholder's dink-ass other company
>
>
bennett@peacefire.org (615) 421 5432 http://www.peacefire.org
