Re: Routing Morpheus through AOL

From: Gremlin (gremlin@REMOVEMEpanix.com)
Date: 01/20/02 

From: "Gremlin" <gremlin@REMOVEMEpanix.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 12:43:46 -0600

Doesn't AOL provide its own internally tunnelled connection?

Gremlin

"amputee" <amputee@impurity.org> wrote in message
news:L6E28.18$S02.288@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com...
>
> "Patrick Farrell" <grimlock@xnet.com> wrote in message
news:3C4A08D8.D5F47C64@xnet.com...
> > Hmmm.. Considering this group is supposed to be for network
administrators who
> > are trying to keep you from running Morpheus, I'd be dissapointed if
someone
> > actually gave you advice how to thwart them.
>
> Prepare to be disapointed..
>
> <rant>
> Last I checked, the group was called comp.security.firewalls, not
comp.security.elitist.nazi.admin.clubhouse.
> As far as I'm concerned, this is NOT a group for network administrators
who wish to keep people
> from running Morpheus, but a group for people to openly discuss firewalls
and security issues. People
> will figure it out [how to bypass security measures] sooner or later, and
guess what, you have no
> solution because you spent all that time thinking that you were fine
because you thought no one could
> figure out how to bypass security policies. Since when has the concept of
network security, or computer
> security through obscurity ever been accepted, hasn't anyone learned
anything from Microsoft's blunders?
> </rant>
>
> Having said that.. if I were in the shoes of the original poster, I would
look into some of the various
> tunneling methods available (httptunnel, zebedee, or some type of GRE or
VPN implementation).
> Of course you would also need access to an offsite machine to set up said
tunneling mechanisms,
> but if you really want to get past these types of restrictions, you'll
find a way. I'm not familiar with
> ComSocks, but if it's a data proxy that you can setup on a remote machine,
you can probably
> find a way to use it. The underlying concept here is that you need to have
access to a remote machine
> (read: machine which is not restricted) from your on-campus connection, on
which you can setup
> some sort of relay/proxy/tunneling daemon that will allow you to connect
on a port which is not
> restricted by your university firewall, which then will serve as your
unrestricted virtual connection to
> the outside world.
>
> 

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