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Re: "Securing the Network against Web-based Proxies"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James S. Tyre)
Thu Jul 10 10:37:50 2008
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:56:39 -0700
To: "Leichter, Jerry" <leichter_jerrold@emc.com>,cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "James S. Tyre" <jstyre@jstyre.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.61.0807091852460.10406@mental>
X-Mail-from: jstyre@jstyre.com
At 06:58 PM 7/9/2008 -0400, Leichter, Jerry wrote:
>Ah, where the web is going. 8e6 Technologies sells a hardware box
>that it claims does signature analysis to detect HTTP proxies and
>blocks them. It can also block HTTPS proxies "that do not have a
>valid certificate" (whatever that means), as well as do such things
>as block IM, force Google and Yahoo searches to be done in Safe
>mode, and so on.
>
>They're marketing this to the education community (with the typical
>horror stories of the problems your school district can run into
>if students use proxies to get around your rules).
>
>What I find most interesting, though, is that the company, based
>in California, has an overseas presence in exactly two other
>countries: Taiwan and China. One doesn't need much imagination
>to see what market they are going after there....
Ah, the memories. 8e6 is the censorware company formerly known as
both X-Stop and Log-On Data, that scoured the interwebs with its
notorious Mudcrawler. One of our reports:
http://censorware.net/reports/xstop/index.html
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