Re: [squid-users] Hacking/Cheating Squid.

From: Sivakumar R. <uramsi01@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 21:10:35 +0530 (GMT)

Hi Marc,

I am not worried about the outside hackers. I am worried about my internal
experts whether they can bypass the squid/break the conf and go out.

One such example I can give is using "anonymizer" sites. I am not sure on
the functionality of this.

Siva.

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Marc van Selm wrote:

> At 03:57 AM 7/20/01 +0530, Sivakumar R. wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Is there any way to hack/cheat squid. I just want to ensure that I have
> >proper security system before some breaches it.
>
> It all depends what you mean. I don't see any real hacks but Squid is not a
> security proxy.
>
> For security you want to aim at a very good router filter (up to TCP port),
> strong server security and Squid will be fine. If Squid is used as a proxy
> one should prevent access (on the router) from the outside. On the other
> hand http traffic can be used by Trojans (so can E-mail by the way) so
> truly secure?
>
> >Thank you,
> >Siva.
>
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