Re: Bypassing proxies
> > Wondering if some people know of some "content-aware" proxies/filters,
to
> > attempt to block [some of] those dangerous products (apart from
maintaining
> > a black-list...)
> If you allow out FTP I will be able to start an SSH connection over port
> 20 (FTP-Data) and it will look like a binary data transmission on any
> network sniff. In reality I am forwarding a local port to a remote
> squid proxy and instructing IE, Netscape or the browser of choice
> to proxy through the local port. Finding a solution to block something
> like this (similiar to what you mentioned above) may be difficult...
>
> If you find something, please let me know...
>
I've bypassed proxies before (check out DESPROXY on freshmeat).
One possible way to deal with it is to require an authentication method that
the bypass doesn't understand.
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