[24406] in Cypherpunks
Re: anon-HTTP server w/o root access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bass Wastelan)
Wed Dec 21 12:46:30 1994
From: Bass Wastelan <bass@fc.net>
To: lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu (L. McCarthy)
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 11:28:57 -0600 (CST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199412210047.TAA10557@bb.hks.net> from "L. McCarthy" at Dec 20, 94 07:47:16 pm
> someone writes:
> $ an anon-http proxy server would probably consume much more in
> $ the way of network resources than a remailer, which will
> $ likely lead to many being shutdown once discovered by the sysadmins
>
> That might be somewhat less true on a commercial provider than on an
> educational or corporate provider, but in any case a WWW anon-server would be
> seen as a much larger potential security hole than a remailer. A couple of
> months ago a "friendly" outsider gained unauthorized access to user files
> here via our Web server, and reported it to the sysadmins. I would have been
> mighty nervous if I'd been offering anon WWW access to the world.
I'd be happy to setup a machine at my providers site do run
a test of anonymized httpd. From what I understand they wouldn't
mind helping either.
Within the next 6 months, there probably will be a number
of for pay anonymizer services availible on the net. It just
makes too much sense for it to not happen.
