Re: Advice On IP Blocking Service

From: Colonel Flagg (colonel_flagg_at_NOSOUPFORJ00internetwarzone.org)
Date: 02/01/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:02:31 -0500

In article <n9pn109nr86k1p5a9gk4sf0m5gb8jft9pm@4ax.com>, me-no-
spam@privacy.net says...

>
> As for interferring with "normal operations", you might have to live
> with some websites not functioning completely because of the
> javascript filtering the proxies do. You could also have problems with
> applets, plug-ins and other gizmos depending on which service you use
> and which settings you choose. Your conditions that the browser
> "absolutely won't slow down" and will behave "normally" may not be
> perfectly achievable. Sometimes you need to make some trade offs
> between functionality and privacy/security.
>

Very good points. If you want anonymity, there's a high chance you're
gonna need to give up some functionality of certain websites.

Applets, etc. "run on your machine", meaning, each applet would need to
be recoded (which is NOT possible) to use the proxy you're trying to
use.... it's impossible to recode all applets "on the fly" and make they
go through the proxy... in fact, it may not be possible to get most
applets to even go through the proxy. Anything that runs on the local
machine has the potential to do harm (let alone some things that run on
the server) allowing it to run through an "anonymous proxy" is
dangerous... it's best to block these applets and deal with the problems
associated. 

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