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Re: Newbie question, How to fully disable/disallow https?

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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
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