On Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021 at 3:37 PM, Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 23 June 2021 at 00:06:21, Coenraad Loubser wrote: > > > I'm sure there are many other ways to do this too... again, what's your > > > > real use case here? > > My guess now that I know Arctic 5824 is deliberately running an open web > > proxy on the Internet (with co-operation from the hosting provider or not) is > > that the objective is to convert all HTTPS connections into HTTP so that the > > content can be cached / scraped / captured on the way past, and the > > "interesting bits" used later, perhaps by some of Artic5824's "customers" > > without the people who chose to browse the Internet through an open proxy > > realising that this is even possible. > > It's possibly even being advertised / promoted / sold as an "anonymising > > service", where people can browse the sort of websites they would prefer not > > to do directly through their own connectivity providers, comfortable in the > > knowledge that the IP address hitting those sites is not theirs, but not > > realising that the HTTP traffic they are then using can be intercepted and > > examined not only by Artic5824 but also by their connectivity provider's > > transparent interception proxy. > > I'd be happy to entertain any less dubious explanation of what the real > > purpose in setting up such a system might be. > > Antony. > > continuation from my last message: im not advertizing it at all, im relying on port scanners and sites like proxyscrape that post open proxys they scanned _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users
