Do your bit to enable end-to-end host IPSEC, rather than IPSEC tunneling. 2c, (and it's half tongue in cheek.)
adrian On Thu, Apr 08, 2010, Chris Deigan wrote: > On 06/04/2010, at 7:25 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > Maybe everyone in SLUG already knows how to do this, but I don't. Maybe > > some kind slugger would write a very short tutorial and we could email > > it to everyone that we know. > > > There's a dozen different ways, none too difficult to figure out (I have no > doubt there's a plethora of sites around with instructions on how to see > Facebook from behind corporate filters/whatnot). > > So many that I've seen, however, give no warning or even thought to the > security implications of the methods involved. > > Realistically, people who wish to bypass the filter usually aren't going to > want to pay money to do so; and the general principle for bypassing it is to > use a remote system which > (a) You can access > (b) Is not affected by the filter > to relay data on your behalf. The end result: people use whatever they can > find for free. > > I haven't seen much argument to agree with me, but unfortunately I doubt most > in the general public might realise the potential for abuse this holds if > instructions circulate to the effect of "use some random proxy/vpn". > > Incase it isn't clear, anything you transmit/receive will be readable by the > proxying machine. Whether the administrator of that machine will be reading > your data is another question entirely, but the concern is that they can. > Couple this with how they intend to produce revenue to support such a service > (after all, hardware/power/bandwidth isn't free) and such a service becomes > even more questionable. > > So remember kids, evade censorship responsibly. > > - Chris-- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $24/pm+GST entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
