Re: Encrypted TCP Tunneler

[sameer <sameer@c2.org>]

	alpha.c2.org will soon start provided anonymous web page
services.  You can get normal webserver access (the alpha.c2.org web
pages will be very limited) through an anonymous shell account.

> 
> >I was toying with a limited form of this idea earlier, where outgoing
> >connections would be limited to http servers.  These are usually on a
> >small number of ports, although there are exceptions.  At least it
> >would be possible to filter out telnet and rlogin and such for that
> >application.  I don't think there are too many bad things you can do
> >just by connecting to httpd ports (probably I would be surprised,
> >though...).  But doing that would not make as much sense for the ETT
> >application.
> 
> A more cypherpunky type of application would be to enable anonymous
> httpd's so that your clients could advertise their nice/naughty products
> and be safe from location identification. If they had to pack up then
> they could move to another ISP and reconnect to the anon.net as normal.
> (Didnt I just read this in a spam HOWTO?)
> 
> The problem I see is when a LEA gets involved and snoops your wires and
> traces you back to your starting point and then traces the client that is
> supplying nasty httpd services. You wouldnt necessarily be aware of this
> occuring either.
> 
> Mark
> 


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