Hi, I've been trying the filtering in fproxy. Nice to have my privacy guarded. I just wonder whether the filter might be a little over-zealous.
For instance, the filter rejects a plain old html file for containing: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> Can anyone please tell me why, and if there's a way to 'tune' the filtering to prevent this. How can such an innocent statement threaten anonymity? Also, can someone please suggest a way to stop the filter from rejecting the "text/plain" mime type (amongst others). David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr.Bad" <[email protected]> To: <devl at freenetproject.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 9:30 AM Subject: Re: [freenet-devl] Freenet - Serious Privacy Threat > >>>>> "B" == Brandon <blanu at uts.cc.utexas.edu> writes: > > B> I think the default answer to the question should be on. When a > B> privacy violation occurs, it will be reported as a horrible and > B> fundamental flaw in our architecture which can only be solved > B> by this host of P2P solutions companies. > > Yeah, well, it seems like if we have filtering ON, and we say, "We'll > take care of you," then any sploits will appear all the more > dangerous. > > It might be better to say, "Here are some dangers of using > fproxy. Note, these are 'dangers' if you're concerned about your > anonymity, not dangers to your computer or whatever. [dangers here] > Here are some things we've provided to help out [filter, > proxy]. HOWEVER, these are not 100% foolproof solutions, and any time > there is some danger of anonymity compromise. Although it is our goal, > we cannot recommend Freenet for people who need 100% anonymity." > > Or something like that. Put the problems up front, and don't let > someone get the drop on us with (say) an <img> tag attack. > > ~Mr. Bad > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mr. Bad <mr.bad at pigdog.org> | Pigdog Journal | http://pigdog.org/ > freenet:MSK at SSK@u1AntQcZ81Y4c2tJKd1M87cZvPoQAge/pigdog+journal// > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
