Net4u - Stealing bandwidth etc.
It may have been an open web proxy only, not capable of abusing SMTP or IRC.
Quote from the Herald article:
"He goes on to say that Net4U services, including his dial-up and server
co-location customers, his "home link" and his "KaZaA" ... were all operated
with stolen bandwidth for a "six-month" period."
That reference to KaZaA would intimate that it wasn't merely web. Of course
we possibly shouldn't believe the word of someone who'd stoop to stealing
bandwidth.
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David Clarke
Tech
:wq
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Forwarded to me by a nice person, apparantly it's been in circulation for a week or so. http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/temp/misc.mp3 -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz Ihug Ltd, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz
The other minor point would be that even if the proxy only listened on 'web proxy' ports if the destination port was permitted to be anything else, youre wide open for SMTP abuse to start with.. But we should all know this :) 64.231.72.5 - - [23/Mar/2003:20:56:28 +1200] "CONNECT maila.microsoft.com:25 / HTTP/1.0" 400 375 218.16.252.172 - - [23/Mar/2003:23:26:10 +1200] "CONNECT 207.46.181.13:25 HTTP/1.1" 405 319 Theres certainly a fairly aggressive online search for open webservers/proxies... At 10:08 25/03/2003 +1200, David Clarke wrote:
It may have been an open web proxy only, not capable of abusing SMTP or IRC.
Quote from the Herald article:
"He goes on to say that Net4U services, including his dial-up and server co-location customers, his "home link" and his "KaZaA" ... were all operated with stolen bandwidth for a "six-month" period."
That reference to KaZaA would intimate that it wasn't merely web. Of course we possibly shouldn't believe the word of someone who'd stoop to stealing bandwidth.
-- David Clarke Tech :wq
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, David Clarke wrote:
"He goes on to say that Net4U services, including his dial-up and server co-location customers, his "home link" and his "KaZaA" ... were all operated with stolen bandwidth for a "six-month" period."
...and all without any of those servers even noticing they were behind a proxy. Amazing! :)
That reference to KaZaA would intimate that it wasn't merely web. Of course we possibly shouldn't believe the word of someone who'd stoop to stealing bandwidth.
Or newspapers that quote what 14 year olds have been saying on IRC, perhaps? -- ** Colin Palmer, Systems and Development Group, University of Waikato, NZ **
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