Re: IPCop for Small-Business Network: Web Proxy Usage

From: Charles Newman (charlesnewman1_at_nospam.comcast.net.do.net.spam.me)
Date: 06/24/05 

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:28:49 -0700

X-No-Archive: Yes

"Moe Trin" <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld> wrote in message
news:slrndbmqog.b5o.ibuprofin@compton.phx.az.us...
> In the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in article
> <PsydneSieaQatiffRVn-vw@comcast.com>, Charles Newman wrote:
>
> >"Moe Trin" <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld> wrote
>
> >> Usually what happens is that we put their name into groups.google.com,
> >> and see what their posts look like. Do they have a clue of what
> >> they're talking about? Reading a few posts will often weed out a lot.
> >> If we don't find any, that raises different flags.
> >
> > What if they have used X-No-Archive, and
> >you dont seem those posts before the 6-day
> >period ends?
>
> Can you show me the international standard that says that XNA must be
> honored by all archives? By the way, what's the retention rate on your
> news server? On the news spool I'm looking at now:
>
> [gemini $] find /var/spool/news/news/comp/os/linux/ -type f -exec grep
> '^X-No-Archive: ' {} \; | wc -l
> 61
> [gemini $] find /var/spool/news/news/comp/os/linux/ -type f | wc -l
> 10841
> [gemini $]
>
> Any clue what that means? And did you read the last sentence you quoted
> above?
>
> >Also, a lot of names can be common, that you can
> >confuse them for someone else.
>
> Wow, that must be an unsolvable problem then.
>
> >You mgiht want to reconsider using Google Groups.
>
> You might want to learn to use google groups - particularly the advanced
> group search tool. See a lot of the people who receive help on Usenet
> are like you - and fail to trim their quotes. And even the crappiest news
> reader (and non-news-reader like Outhouse Expunge) puts in an attribute
> line by default - it's an accepted tradition For example;
>
> Results 1 - 10 of 1,830 for Charles Newman comcast. com (0.30 seconds)
>
> And that's just for 01-Jan-2005 to date. Hmmm, what's this in
> rec.travel.air? Now, I very much doubt that google is archiving the
> alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hamsters.duct-tape group, but I'd also
> expect that if you had any common sense, you'd use a different posting
> mechanism - like a mail.2.news proxy - when you post there.
>
> >Setting X-No-Archive to yes is also a good practice to make is less
> >likely your Email address will be harvested by spammers.
>
> Why don't you mail me more details.
>
> >I dont know about Diebold, but Washington
> >Mutual runs their entire computer system on
> >Windows.
>
> That must be a hell of a surprise to the Feds. What's the name of the
> interface with the reserve bank? PowerPoint?
>
> >I knew a guy in college that did an internship helping to design the
> >current system they run now.
>
> So they bond interns, but don't have them sign NDAs?
>
> >When WaMu bought out several other banks, they converted the networks
> >of the banks they purchased from Unix/Linux to Windows, becuase they
> >new owners believed that if Windows was absolutely necessary for
> >business computing. WaMu is a strong believer in Windows
>
> We had two branches locally - I'll spread the word.
>
> > Kaiser Permenente, one of the biggest HMOs on the west coast, has
> >Windows on all their workstations (currently Windows 2000).
> >They use Wnidows workstations that use an IBM mainframe (they still have
> >a few IBM terminals arond) as their gateway machine.
>
> What is a "gateway machine"? Is that another buzz-word you thought you
> learned?

    The gateway machine would be the computer
that does all the routing, filtering, etc. A computer
running a NAT program would be a gateway
machine. On my network, I have one machine
that handles all the networking tasks, with the
3 machines behind it. Such a computer running
the network handles all the networking chores.
It has 2 NIC cards in it, and the other computers
sit behind it connected to it through a hub. One
NIC card is connected to the Internet, the other
to the hub with the 3 network PCs behind it.
   This machine runs AllegroSurf for routing/NAT,
Tiny Personal Firewall for firewall protection,
SpamBam for spam filtering, NewsProxy for
Usenet filtering, and WebWasher 3.0, which does
Web fitering, pop-up blocking, cookie crushing,
ad-blocking, and HTTP proxy all in one program.

>
> >So even if you have a non-Windows machine as your gateway machine, you
> >STILL need Windows on the worktations.
>
> I'll have to tell that to the IT supervisor. By the way, did you check
> your credit report? That little breach of security at CardSystems in
> Tucson AZ was the result of a windoze virus - see the New York Times
story.
> 40,000,000 credit cards _MAY_ have been compromised - and 70,000 bogus
> charges have already been reported. Is that another of your friends who
> helped them set up their data system?

   Thats a totally diffferent operation. What this
guy did was work on designing the Windows-based
software for WaMu's system back in 1998.

>
> > They mostly use Windows XP now. The casinos
> >I occasionally go to are all running Windows XP.
>
> And that's supposed to be impressive exactly how?

    Some of the indian casinos run their entire
operation on Windows PCs

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