[32646] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: a privacy violation at the DC Renaissance Hotel - to all NANOG 20 conference participants
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hughes)
Tue Dec 5 16:05:48 2000
From: "Mike Hughes" <mike@smashing.net>
To: Kai Schlichting <kai@pac-rim.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 21:02:15 -0000
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On 5 Dec 00, at 15:17, Kai Schlichting wrote:
> STSN apparently uses a transparent proxy (which I have no problem with)
> that continually keeps a copy of what is accessed for a very long
> time (which I have a BIG problem with) - but it doesn't stop there:
> it's doing conditional re-GET's on those objects in the cache,
> keeping it up-to-date (and I will not allege that the STSN admins
> are "surfing the logs" so to speak, there is not evidence for that).
Well, I'm glad I didn't hit anything sensitive through that service,
and basically only checked mail over SSH.
One of the things I'm considering doing (but not got around to yet),
is building myself a "friendly" Squid proxy on my office network.
Then, whenever I'm on my travels, I open an SSH session to my
office network, and tunnel all web traffic through the SSH session
to my Squid.
That's the best solution I can think of for this kind of stuff. Anyone
else got any ideas?
Mike
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