Leaving computers on after work? - Firewalls
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I thought virtually any employer around would require you to turn your
work PC off at the end of the day. I find that some of the Tor relay
nodes are on corporate networks, and some employees have ...
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Leaving computers on after work?
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I thought virtually any employer around would require you to turn your
work PC off at the end of the day. I find that some of the Tor relay
nodes are on corporate networks, and some employees have Tor
relay nodes running on them all weekend. I can find this by surfing
my web site through Tor, and looking at the access log, and I see
that there is one node on a corporate network in Germany that
some employee is turning into a Tor relay node all weekend. I
would think that any employer would not allow someone to leave
their computer on after they leave work, but someone on a corporate
network in Berlin is running a Tor relay node on their work PC,
after they leave work for the day.
There are two methods for creating Tor nodes. The first, is
to create a relay node requiring the Tor software to use, then
the other is to install the Tor software on a server, but configure it
to work as a public Tor proxy, and anybody can access, Tor
software not required, that routes their traffic ontothe Tor network.
That is what I operate on my server. Anybody around the world
can access Tor from Tor entry servers, like mine, without having
to install the client software. Very handy on work or school PCs
where the machine is locked down to prevent installation of any
software. Just change your browser setting to any public Tor
entry server, and you are good to go.
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
In article , chilly8@hotmail.com says...
> Just change your browser setting to any public Tor
> entry server, and you are good to go.
And when the connection is found by the IT department in a network that
is not properly secured - they will be disciplined for company policy
violations. In the case of a properly secured company network your "just
change your settings... " would not work, as they would not be permitted
access to non-company approved websites.
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"Leythos" wrote in message
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> In article , chilly8@hotmail.com says...
>> Just change your browser setting to any public Tor
>> entry server, and you are good to go.
>
> And when the connection is found by the IT department in a network that
> is not properly secured - they will be disciplined for company policy
> violations. In the case of a properly secured company network your "just
> change your settings... " would not work, as they would not be permitted
> access to non-company approved websites.
Well, I will say this. We are covering the WTA Zurich tennis tournamant
this week, and I am seeing connections from corporate networks all over
Europe. I have 136 on my message board right now, and I would say
about 90 percent of them are coming from corporate networks all over
Europe.
When doing sports and talk programming, there are other feeds I turn
on, and between that, and the message boards, I am pulling about 9.6
megabits transfer rate right now, and nearly allow it from corporate
networks in Europe, and some users on corporate networks in the
Eastern USA are conecting now, as the workday is just about to
begin there. The number of people connecting from coroprate
networks in Europe to various forms of our coverage right now,
is staggering.
As the workday begins for you there, someone could be tuned in
to one of the various forms of our coverage, right now, and you
might not spot it right away, if they are using the message forums.
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
"Chilly8" wrote in message
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> "Leythos" wrote in message
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>> In article , chilly8@hotmail.com says...
>>> Just change your browser setting to any public Tor
>>> entry server, and you are good to go.
>>
>> And when the connection is found by the IT department in a network that
>> is not properly secured - they will be disciplined for company policy
>> violations. In the case of a properly secured company network your "just
>> change your settings... " would not work, as they would not be permitted
>> access to non-company approved websites.
>
>
> Well, I will say this. We are covering the WTA Zurich tennis tournamant
> this week, and I am seeing connections from corporate networks all over
> Europe. I have 136 on my message board right now, and I would say
> about 90 percent of them are coming from corporate networks all over
> Europe.
>
> When doing sports and talk programming, there are other feeds I turn
> on, and between that, and the message boards, I am pulling about 9.6
> megabits transfer rate right now, and nearly allow it from corporate
> networks in Europe, and some users on corporate networks in the
> Eastern USA are conecting now, as the workday is just about to
> begin there. The number of people connecting from coroprate
> networks in Europe to various forms of our coverage right now,
> is staggering.
>
> As the workday begins for you there, someone could be tuned in
> to one of the various forms of our coverage, right now, and you
> might not spot it right away, if they are using the message forums.
I have a bloke from England in one of my chat rooms dedicated to
coverage who is using encrypted tunnel to his residential DSL
line on these new 25 megabit lines they have in England, and the
he is tunneling out from there to my server, and he this guy is
even BOASTING in my chat room right now that the boss
will NEVER catch him, and he may well be right, if he is
using strong enough encryption.
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
In article , chilly8@hotmail.com says...
> Well, I will say this. We are covering the WTA Zurich tennis tournamant
> this week, and I am seeing connections from corporate networks all over
> Europe. I have 136 on my message board right now, and I would say
> about 90 percent of them are coming from corporate networks all over
> Europe.
Which proves my point - there are a lot of improperly secured networks,
and that's the only reason you are able to make a dime off your
unethical manner.
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drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
In article , chilly8@hotmail.com says...
> I have a bloke from England in one of my chat rooms dedicated to
> coverage who is using encrypted tunnel to his residential DSL
> line on these new 25 megabit lines they have in England, and the
> he is tunneling out from there to my server, and he this guy is
> even BOASTING in my chat room right now that the boss
> will NEVER catch him, and he may well be right, if he is
> using strong enough encryption.
Like you, there are a lot of DUMB people out there.
If his employer has a firewall that can provide real-time monitoring,
the tunnel is very easy to spot and will get the chap booted. Tunnels
are the easiest things to see/detect.
--
Leythos
- Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
- Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
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On Oct 15, 7:49 am, Leythos wrote:
> In article , chil...@hotmail.com says...
>
> > Well, I will say this. We are covering the WTA Zurich tennis tournamant
> > this week, and I am seeing connections from corporate networks all over
> > Europe. I have 136 on my message board right now, and I would say
> > about 90 percent of them are coming from corporate networks all over
> > Europe.
And that was just for "small fry" in tennis. I am just wondering what
will happen when the Big Guns of tennis take the court later on this
week. WTA Zurich is the unofficial European championships of tennis,
and there European players in the top 10. Jenin, Jankovic, and
Sharapova are expected to take the court later on this week. And when
the various P2P TV services also get into the picture, I think
corporate network admins in Europe better stock up on their supply of
headache pills, they are going to NEED them, it looks like. I can just
imagine the strain on corporate networks all over Europe when these
three young ladies take the court in Zurich later on this week.
I saw enough hits on my public Tor entrance proxy, that it actually
started spitting out all kinds of strange errors that I had to have my
server reboot to solve the problem. My server is on a 100 meg pipe,
but Windows starts to become unstable with a fraction of that load. A
mere 183 people on my message board at once started to slow the server
down. For machines running either vBulletin or phpBB BBS software,
Windows starts to slow down when the user load gets up around 200.
Figure Skating Universe, which uses vBulletin, starts to become very
unstable at about 500 users and their server will actually crash when
the user load gets up around 1,000 users. The trouble is that MySQL,
which phpBB and vBulletin both need, is ONLY available for Windows
machines. Also, Live 365, my primary stream connection, ONLY supports
Windows machines, so I am stuck using Windoze on my server.
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
In article <1192463519.586090.101340@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.c om>,
chilly8@hotmail.com says...
> My server is on a 100 meg pipe,
> but Windows starts to become unstable with a fraction of that load.
So, besides supporting unethical behavior you don't know how to setup
servers either.
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> On Oct 15, 7:49 am, Leythos wrote:
>> In article , chil...@hotmail.com says...
>>
>> > Well, I will say this. We are covering the WTA Zurich tennis tournamant
>> > this week, and I am seeing connections from corporate networks all over
>> > Europe. I have 136 on my message board right now, and I would say
>> > about 90 percent of them are coming from corporate networks all over
>> > Europe.
>
> And that was just for "small fry" in tennis. I am just wondering what
> will happen when the Big Guns of tennis take the court later on this
> week. WTA Zurich is the unofficial European championships of tennis,
> and there European players in the top 10. Jenin, Jankovic, and
And I was right. I have a 17.8 megabit load, nearly twice what I had
yesterday, almost all of it coming from corporate networks all over
Europe. And a 798K video feed we are offering as well, European
corporate network admins will be wondering where all the bandwidth
is going today.
And for American admins, if you see a huge spike in bandwidth
usage, that suddenly drops off about 2PM US Eastern time, that
will have been people on your network watching our video feed of
the WTA Zurich tennis tournament.
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
"Chilly8" wrote in message
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>> On Oct 15, 7:49 am, Leythos wrote:
>>> In article , chil...@hotmail.com says...
>>>
>>> > Well, I will say this. We are covering the WTA Zurich tennis
>>> > tournamant
>>> > this week, and I am seeing connections from corporate networks all
>>> > over
>>> > Europe. I have 136 on my message board right now, and I would say
>>> > about 90 percent of them are coming from corporate networks all over
>>> > Europe.
>>
>> And that was just for "small fry" in tennis. I am just wondering what
>> will happen when the Big Guns of tennis take the court later on this
>> week. WTA Zurich is the unofficial European championships of tennis,
>> and there European players in the top 10. Jenin, Jankovic, and
>
> And I was right. I have a 17.8 megabit load, nearly twice what I had
> yesterday, almost all of it coming from corporate networks all over
> Europe. And a 798K video feed we are offering as well, European
> corporate network admins will be wondering where all the bandwidth
> is going today.
>
> And for American admins, if you see a huge spike in bandwidth
> usage, that suddenly drops off about 2PM US Eastern time, that
> will have been people on your network watching our video feed of
> the WTA Zurich tennis tournament.
And the strains on coporate networks could go even higher, There
one match coming up with one of the top tennis players in Europe,
so that might slow down a a lot of coroprate networks in Europe
as people tune in to watch from work
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
Leythos wrote:
> In article , chilly8@hotmail.com says...
>> I have a bloke from England in one of my chat rooms dedicated to
>> coverage who is using encrypted tunnel to his residential DSL
>> line on these new 25 megabit lines they have in England, and the
>> he is tunneling out from there to my server, and he this guy is
>> even BOASTING in my chat room right now that the boss
>> will NEVER catch him, and he may well be right, if he is
>> using strong enough encryption.
>
> Like you, there are a lot of DUMB people out there.
>
> If his employer has a firewall that can provide real-time monitoring,
> the tunnel is very easy to spot and will get the chap booted. Tunnels
> are the easiest things to see/detect.
>
mmm can you give me some pointers on how to detect tunnels
or encapsulated traffic (don't know if they are called tunnels as well)
but with
this i mean for instance icmp packets carrying application headers (eg:
http)
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
chilly8@hotmail.com wrote:
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>
>
> On Oct 15, 7:49 am, Leythos wrote:
>> In article , chil...@hotmail.com says...
>>
>>> Well, I will say this. We are covering the WTA Zurich tennis tournamant
>>> this week, and I am seeing connections from corporate networks all over
>>> Europe. I have 136 on my message board right now, and I would say
>>> about 90 percent of them are coming from corporate networks all over
>>> Europe.
>
> And that was just for "small fry" in tennis. I am just wondering what
> will happen when the Big Guns of tennis take the court later on this
> week. WTA Zurich is the unofficial European championships of tennis,
> and there European players in the top 10. Jenin, Jankovic, and
> Sharapova are expected to take the court later on this week. And when
> the various P2P TV services also get into the picture, I think
> corporate network admins in Europe better stock up on their supply of
> headache pills, they are going to NEED them, it looks like. I can just
> imagine the strain on corporate networks all over Europe when these
> three young ladies take the court in Zurich later on this week.
>
wtf ... iirc WTA Zurich is not even a grand slam and in general
the big guns only go to these things to prepare for the grand slams
like wimbledon. And who the hell is Jenin if you mean henin than shame
on you
for mistyping the nr 1 female tennis player and co-belgian justin henin
> I saw enough hits on my public Tor entrance proxy, that it actually
> started spitting out all kinds of strange errors that I had to have my
> server reboot to solve the problem. My server is on a 100 meg pipe,
> but Windows starts to become unstable with a fraction of that load. A
> mere 183 people on my message board at once started to slow the server
> down. For machines running either vBulletin or phpBB BBS software,
> Windows starts to slow down when the user load gets up around 200.
> Figure Skating Universe, which uses vBulletin, starts to become very
> unstable at about 500 users and their server will actually crash when
> the user load gets up around 1,000 users. The trouble is that MySQL,
> which phpBB and vBulletin both need, is ONLY available for Windows
> machines. Also, Live 365, my primary stream connection, ONLY supports
> Windows machines, so I am stuck using Windoze on my server.
>
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
chilly8@hotmail.com wrote:
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>
>
> On Oct 15, 7:49 am, Leythos wrote:
>> In article , chil...@hotmail.com says...
>>
>>> Well, I will say this. We are covering the WTA Zurich tennis tournamant
>>> this week, and I am seeing connections from corporate networks all over
>>> Europe. I have 136 on my message board right now, and I would say
>>> about 90 percent of them are coming from corporate networks all over
>>> Europe.
>
> And that was just for "small fry" in tennis. I am just wondering what
> will happen when the Big Guns of tennis take the court later on this
> week. WTA Zurich is the unofficial European championships of tennis,
> and there European players in the top 10. Jenin, Jankovic, and
> Sharapova are expected to take the court later on this week. And when
> the various P2P TV services also get into the picture, I think
> corporate network admins in Europe better stock up on their supply of
> headache pills, they are going to NEED them, it looks like. I can just
> imagine the strain on corporate networks all over Europe when these
> three young ladies take the court in Zurich later on this week.
>
> I saw enough hits on my public Tor entrance proxy, that it actually
> started spitting out all kinds of strange errors that I had to have my
> server reboot to solve the problem. My server is on a 100 meg pipe,
> but Windows starts to become unstable with a fraction of that load. A
> mere 183 people on my message board at once started to slow the server
> down. For machines running either vBulletin or phpBB BBS software,
> Windows starts to slow down when the user load gets up around 200.
> Figure Skating Universe, which uses vBulletin, starts to become very
> unstable at about 500 users and their server will actually crash when
> the user load gets up around 1,000 users. The trouble is that MySQL,
MySQL is a windows only program hahahahahahaa
****ing idiot it's an opensource SQL server, same goes for
phpBB.
if you were talking about MSSQL than yes Microsoft SQL server
is Windows only.
> which phpBB and vBulletin both need, is ONLY available for Windows
> machines. Also, Live 365, my primary stream connection, ONLY supports
> Windows machines, so I am stuck using Windoze on my server.
>
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
Leythos wrote:
> In article <1192463519.586090.101340@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.c om>,
> chilly8@hotmail.com says...
>> My server is on a 100 meg pipe,
>> but Windows starts to become unstable with a fraction of that load.
>
> So, besides supporting unethical behavior you don't know how to setup
> servers either.
>
where was there any indication he did anything unethical?
i'm sure i just missed it but his broken english doesn't make it
easy to, nor does it give you the incentive to read his whole post
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
In message <1192463519.586090.101340@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.c om>
chilly8@hotmail.com wrote:
>The trouble is that MySQL,
>which phpBB and vBulletin both need, is ONLY available for Windows
>machines.
Someone smack me, I've got to be dreaming, he can't be THAT dumb...
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
In message <47154336$0$22313$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> goarilla <"kevin
DOT paulus AT skynet DOT be"> wrote:
>mmm can you give me some pointers on how to detect tunnels
>or encapsulated traffic (don't know if they are called tunnels as well)
>but with
>this i mean for instance icmp packets carrying application headers (eg:
>http)
I'd be worried about *any* machine emitting a large amount of ICMP
traffic, either the packet count or the overall bandwidth associated
with ICMP being too high would set off flags as being a likely
participant in a DDoS.
I might not catch 2MB of data, but then 2MB of data won't adversely
affect a corporate network either.
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
In article <47154336$0$22313$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>, goarilla <"kevin
DOT paulus AT skynet DOT be"> says...
> Leythos wrote:
> > In article , chilly8@hotmail.com says...
> >> I have a bloke from England in one of my chat rooms dedicated to
> >> coverage who is using encrypted tunnel to his residential DSL
> >> line on these new 25 megabit lines they have in England, and the
> >> he is tunneling out from there to my server, and he this guy is
> >> even BOASTING in my chat room right now that the boss
> >> will NEVER catch him, and he may well be right, if he is
> >> using strong enough encryption.
> >
> > Like you, there are a lot of DUMB people out there.
> >
> > If his employer has a firewall that can provide real-time monitoring,
> > the tunnel is very easy to spot and will get the chap booted. Tunnels
> > are the easiest things to see/detect.
> >
> mmm can you give me some pointers on how to detect tunnels
> or encapsulated traffic (don't know if they are called tunnels as well)
> but with
> this i mean for instance icmp packets carrying application headers (eg:
> http)
Since the tunnel doesn't change IP's source/destination, it's easy
enough to find - just look for anything that maintains a connection.
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Leythos
- Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
- Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
In message Leythos
wrote:
>> mmm can you give me some pointers on how to detect tunnels
>> or encapsulated traffic (don't know if they are called tunnels as well)
>> but with
>> this i mean for instance icmp packets carrying application headers (eg:
>> http)
>
>Since the tunnel doesn't change IP's source/destination, it's easy
>enough to find - just look for anything that maintains a connection.
Data tunneled through an ICMP connection doesn't "maintain" a connection
(nor does UDP, unless you understand the application layer protocol)
However, the spike of ICMP traffic itself would set of flags.
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
DevilsPGD wrote:
> chilly8@hotmail.com wrote:
>> The trouble is that MySQL, which phpBB and vBulletin both need, is
>> ONLY available for Windows machines.
>
> Someone smack me, I've got to be dreaming, he can't be THAT dumb...
He is, so could you please stop feeding that idiot?
cu
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Re: Leaving computers on after work?
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On Oct 16, 4:06 pm, goarilla <"kevin DOT paulus AT skynet DOT be">
wrote:
> chil...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > X-No-Archive: Yes
>
> > On Oct 15, 7:49 am, Leythos wrote:
> >> In article , chil...@hotmail.com says...
>
> >>> Well, I will say this. We are covering the WTA Zurich tennis tournamant
> >>> this week, and I am seeing connections from corporate networks all over
> >>> Europe. I have 136 on my message board right now, and I would say
> >>> about 90 percent of them are coming from corporate networks all over
> >>> Europe.
>
> > And that was just for "small fry" in tennis. I am just wondering what
> > will happen when the Big Guns of tennis take the court later on this
> > week. WTA Zurich is the unofficial European championships of tennis,
> > and there European players in the top 10. Jenin, Jankovic, and
> > Sharapova are expected to take the court later on this week. And when
> > the various P2P TV services also get into the picture, I think
> > corporate network admins in Europe better stock up on their supply of
> > headache pills, they are going to NEED them, it looks like. I can just
> > imagine the strain on corporate networks all over Europe when these
> > three young ladies take the court in Zurich later on this week.
>
> wtf ... iirc WTA Zurich is not even a grand slam and in general
> the big guns only go to these things to prepare for the grand slams
> like wimbledon. And who the hell is Jenin if you mean henin than shame
> on you
> for mistyping the nr 1 female tennis player and co-belgian justin henin
Sorry about that, but I am the WORST proofreader there ever was.
Also, I have seen enough load on my server to slow it down. While I
have the bandwidth to handle the load, the server tends to slow down
if a lot of people come onto the message boards or chat rooms. Today,
it slowed the server enough where the connection to Live 365 dropped
off several times. The Live 365 broadcasting tool shows the CPU
efficiency in real time, and the CPU efficiency, at one point, had
dropped to 8.1 percent. There was quiite a load on my server this
morning, and coming almost entirely from corporate network addresses
in Europe.