[41971] in Cypherpunks
Re: Encrypted TCP Tunneler
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Sun Oct 22 00:02:32 1995
From: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
To: mark@lochard.com.au (Mark)
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 20:49:23 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: hfinney@shell.portal.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199510220058.AA44534@junkers.lochard.com.au> from "Mark" at Oct 22, 95 11:58:41 am
alpha.c2.org will soon start provided anonymous web page
services. You can get normal webserver access (the alpha.c2.org web
pages will be very limited) through an anonymous shell account.
>
> >I was toying with a limited form of this idea earlier, where outgoing
> >connections would be limited to http servers. These are usually on a
> >small number of ports, although there are exceptions. At least it
> >would be possible to filter out telnet and rlogin and such for that
> >application. I don't think there are too many bad things you can do
> >just by connecting to httpd ports (probably I would be surprised,
> >though...). But doing that would not make as much sense for the ETT
> >application.
>
> A more cypherpunky type of application would be to enable anonymous
> httpd's so that your clients could advertise their nice/naughty products
> and be safe from location identification. If they had to pack up then
> they could move to another ISP and reconnect to the anon.net as normal.
> (Didnt I just read this in a spam HOWTO?)
>
> The problem I see is when a LEA gets involved and snoops your wires and
> traces you back to your starting point and then traces the client that is
> supplying nasty httpd services. You wouldnt necessarily be aware of this
> occuring either.
>
> Mark
>
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