[109888] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sat Dec 13 07:39:55 2008
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:39:47 -0500
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb@byrneit.net>
In-Reply-To: <70D072392E56884193E3D2DE09C097A9FB2E@pascal.zaphodb.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:33:51 -0800
"Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb@byrneit.net> wrote:
> Because anyone with half a brain blocks proxies from their e-commerce
> site.
>
What is a proxy? A garden-variety squid server, in the DMZ of a
corporate firewall? The nasty box in some hotels that "helps" guests
surf the net? A socks proxy installed by the RBN on unsuspecting
desktops?
I *always* use a squid proxy server; if nothing else, it protects me
when I'm using a wireless network. I've never had a problem (though
now that Google thinks that Randy's machines are in Japan, I'm
expecting some trouble...)
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
