Firewalls: Re: Untrusted vs. trusted network security

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Subject:	Re: Untrusted vs. trusted network security
From:	peter @ baileynm . com (Peter da Silva)
Date:	Sat, 21 Dec 1996 06:36:59 -0600 (CST)
To:	genel @ inforamp . net (Gene Lee)
Cc:	firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM, bill . stout @ hidata . com
In-reply-to:	<01BBEE10 . 63F1D0A0 @ ts30-14 . tor . iSTAR . ca> from "Gene Lee" at Dec 20, 96 00:54:42 am

> Your remote-control trojan would have the most effectiveness through a 
> packet-filtering-only firewall, which I guess is yet another argument 
> against such FWs and filtering routers.

I brought this up some time ago. The biggest hole you're likely to get in
a proxy fireall, though, is a SHTTP proxy (or is that HTTPS, I forget which
acronym of the month won) since it's kinda like a Socks connection.

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RE: Untrusted vs. trusted network security
From: Gene Lee <genel @ inforamp . net>

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