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  • Subject: [ga] Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed
  • From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:23:28 -0800

All,

  Well it looks like routing around for Bittorrent could be like
child's play down under...  Seems to me that these Government folks
in Australia are wrapped a bit too tight...

See:
There's a
http://www.banthisurl.com/2008/12/exclusive-white-hat-hacker-tears-apart-flaws-in-aussie-net-filtering-scheme/
three-
http://www.banthisurl.com/2008/12/interview-with-a-white-hat-hacker-part-2-the-filters-vulnerabilities/
part
http://www.banthisurl.com/2008/12/interview-with-a-white-hat-hacker-part-3-what-machines-cant-judge-and-why/
interview with a computer security expert on BanThisURL that goes into
the flaws in the Aussie net filtering scheme. In addition to SSH tunnels
and
proxies, more worrying problems like trojaning the boxes to set up man
in the
middle attacks (which the interviewee has done in his lab), cross site
scripting and the Australian blacklist leaking are all discussed.
Worrying 
and relevant, especially since Thailand's blacklist has
http://www.banthisurl.com/2008/12/thailands-blacklist-leaked-on-the-internet/
just been leaked.

Regards,

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