[4605] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Anonymizer / Web Spoof
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Harmon)
Thu Feb 27 14:21:28 1997
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 10:54:08 -0500
From: Jim Harmon <jharmon@telecnnct.com>
To: Michael Tuschik <mt2@inf.tu-dresden.de>
Cc: goat <babygoat@earthlink.net>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Michael Tuschik wrote:
>
> Not really. The goal of a Web Spoof is to hide itself from the user.
This might be a very minor point, but I think this should say that a Web
Spoof is an Server that fools a user and/or Client, not hides from one.
And Anonymizer fools the Server about who the Client is.
> An anonymizer hides the user from the WWW server. So there are
> different attacking goals but the techniques are the same.
>
> -Micha
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