NEWS: Web Security Hole Revealed (opportunity?)

msprague at ridgecrest.ca.us msprague at ridgecrest.ca.us
Thu Dec 12 21:15:20 PST 1996


>At 11:14 PM 12/11/96 -0500, you wrote:
>>X-Sender: okeefe at olympus.net
>>Mime-Version: 1.0
>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 19:32:32 -0800
>>To: N E W S   R E L E A S E  <IPS at olympus.net>
>>From: "Steve O'Keefe" <IPS at olympus.net>
>>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







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