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Re: NEWS: Web Security Hole Revealed (opportunity?)
>At 11:14 PM 12/11/96 -0500, you wrote:
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>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 19:32:32 -0800
>>To: N E W S R E L E A S E <[email protected]>
>>From: "Steve O'Keefe" <[email protected]>
>>Subject: NEWS: Web Security Hole Revealed
>>
>>BREAKING NEWS
>>For Release Thursday, December 12, 1996
>>
>>MAJOR WEB SECURITY FLAW REVEALED
>>
>>(New York) -- Edward Felten, head of Princeton University's
>>Safe Internet Programming Team (SIP), today revealed a
>>major security flaw in the Internet's World Wide Web.
>>Called "web spoofing," the breach allows any Internet
>>server to place itself between a user and the rest of the
>>web. In that middle position, the server may observe, steal
>>and alter any information passing between the unfortunate
>>browser and the web.
(deletia)
Wait a minuite; This sounds like an opportunity!
I see a possibility for a machine confugured to tx/rx PGP encrypted packets
to re-broadcast them with the machines IP.
This would become an anonymous ISP