interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering

Thu Jan 15 23:00:59 UTC 2004

Chris Brenton wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 17:11, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
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>>And if he fails, what with the fact that sending all Internet traffic in 
>>the whole country through a single chokepoint obviously creates a single 
>>point of failure, all Net traffic in Saudi Arabia stops.
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>Not sure if its still the same setup, but up till 2 years ago this
>consisted of 6 HTTP proxies sitting on the same class C. Best part was
>they were _open_ proxies, so it was not uncommon to have a .net or .uk
>attacker bounce through them on the way to attacking your site. 
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Not open anymore (took some persuading with SORBS, but they got closed - 
doubt it was just SORBS, but I know he complained many times because 
they were running a lot of mail through the same subnet as well)

/ Mat