Re: Routing Morpheus through AOL
From: Patrick Farrell (grimlock@xnet.com)Date: 01/21/02
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From: Patrick Farrell <grimlock@xnet.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 23:35:05 -0600
My faith in peoples ability to screw up is never dissapointed :) One of the
reasons I read this group is to see what new fun little things users come up
with. Build an idiot proof box, and the world will build a better idiot.
I just love users that think corporate networks are their own personal property
and they can do whatever the hell they want.
amputee wrote:
>
> "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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