[clug] Another thought on Cleanfeed

[Neill Cox]

I'm looking forward to them using a proprietary MS Windows based solution
that will be an immediate target for every would be 1337 haxx0r in the
country.

Malformed zip archives, malicious jpegs, wmfs with executable content :)

Should be heaps of fun.  Crash the great firewall of Oz for mad props :)

Of course the people running this will be competent enough to avoid all of
these possible security problems, so these idle daydreams will come to
naught.

Cheers,
Neill

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Sunnz <sunnzy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well the web isn't just text, there are pdf, doc, mp3, etc... how can
> a proxy possibly know every format in existence? How would it
> determinate what file type something is, say you created a ODT file,
> putted it into a truecrypt encrypted container, rename that container
> to something like porn.mov and send it along? Would the proxy try to
> see if it can read the mov file as a Quicktime file, or would it
> simply try to interpret the would bit stream as ascii? Oh yea talk
> about .mov, it is just a container file, one can use any codec inside
> of mov, again, it could be a video and/or audio file... so it could
> have the sound of "go go power ranger" while having kiddie porn in the
> video of an unknown codec...
>
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