Re: Most Popular Hardware Firewalls?
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Re: Most Popular Hardware Firewalls?

From: Sebastian Gottschalk <seppi@seppig.de>
Date: Tue Feb 28 2006 - 21:15:56 CET

Leythos wrote:
> In article <46jlu7Fbgcj1U2@news.dfncis.de>, seppi@seppig.de says...
>> snertking wrote:
>>
>>>> It's not about modifying the system, but just circumventing the
>>>> filtering.
>>> Which is impossible to do without the root password to the firewall.
>> Didn't you get the point? It's about tunneling in every way.
>> Just like you can use Google Cache or certain XSS on Google to display
>> any blocked website as long as Google is allowed. Wanna block Google?
>
> Why would you allow it?
>
> You can't get active content, only static, from google cache - hardly a
> threat. Oh, and the firewall HTTP service filter will still remove
> content from the session and also filter it of malware.

May you re-read the thread? This part of the discussion is about content
censorship against the kids.
Received on Mon May 1 00:53:43 2006