Re: Proof that firewalls can be circumvented

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Date: 07/07/02 

Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 00:04:29 +0100

You obviously have no idea about proxy filtering, and your friend is walking
on a very thin rope with no support over a very deep hole which if she falls
into will probably never get out of (basically she is looking to get herself
fired for breeching network security, a MAJOR issue in the UK and US and
probably everywhere else, i wouldnt hire ANYONE if they had been fired for
something related to a breech in security, that is me though i guess some
people will)

your friend is probably just using Bouncer or another similar program which
just opens a port and forwards all data from it to another destination, it
isnt clever and even very poor admins know about it as it is so easy and
mentioned alot on the internet. The logs will have it recorded and she WILL
get caught one day, just because they have not caught her yet (or told her
they have evidence) does not mean she is in teh clear, they might just be
waiting until she gets caught saying something she shouldnt, or sending
someone copyrighted software etc. alot of companies wait until the employee
does something illegal such as mention classified company data which they
have signed a contract of confidentiality. This would mean the employee
would probably NEVER get another job. Companies DO DO THIS! i have seen very
similar things with phone conversations being recorded, all the other data
"gets lost" and they say they got the evidence during a "routine employee
security check" etc.

If i was you i would ask your friend a question, is chatting on IRC worth
her job? i HIGHLY doubt it is!

I think people who, at work, use IRC, Napster (or alike) etc are stupid,
they can wait until they get home to use it, if not they need professional
help.
"Charles Newman" <charlesnewman1@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:srlV8.410007$352.53049@sccrnsc02...
>
>
> On one adult chat room I like to go to, there is one woman who gets
> around her
> company firewalls to get on during the day, and her company has no CLUE
she
> is doing this. What she does is set up a proxy sever on her home PC, and
> then
> configures mIRC on her work PC to go through the proxy on her home PC, to
> get to the chat room. She also sets the listening ports on her proxy on
> ports
> other than 23 or 1080, so her activities are far less likely to be
noticed.
> Since her home PC is being used to access the chat room, the admins
at
> her
> company are CLUELESS to what she is going. So to all your admins out
there,
> who invest tens of thousands dollars on filtering software and firewalls,
> just be aware
> that one astute user, like this woman, can get around it, and you will
never
> know
> what they are up to.
>
>
>

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