[gentoo-user] Re: Re: [gentoo]Block certain websites

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

· Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>:

> On Sunday 16 September 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> · Balaviswanathan Vaidyanathan <vbnath1981@yahoo.co.in>:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> >   This is to know how to block certain websites as I intend to set
>> > up a browsing centre based on Gentoo OS
>>
>> Forget about it. There are far too many open proxies out
>> there, like my own at
>> <http://alexander.skwar.name/~askwar/stuff/proxy/>
> 
> /me makes a mental note to bookmark this

Feel free to use it. No guarantees about performance, though ;)

> /me makes another note to buy Alexander a beer next time I go to Europe
> 
> :-)

*g* Thanks.

One important thing to note, though. It's important to remember
that the proxy operator could easily sniff all the traffic that's
going through the proxy. The proxy needs to be able to read the
traffic. 

Now, I swear that *I* am not going to log any traffic going
through my system. But you've gotta decide if you trust me...

On a larger note, exactly this question was the reason for the
recent "tor problem", cf. <http://www.derangedsecurity.com/time-to-reveal%e2%80%a6/>
or <http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/1730258>.

Cheers,

Alexander Skwar

PS: *LOL* My signature is random. I _swear_ :)
-- 
Simon: "I swear - when it's appropriate."
Kaylee: "Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate."

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