![]() ![]() This “ great firewall of China” has been known to block theNew York Times web site as well as other news, political, and spiritualsites that the government disagrees with. Occasionally theproxies are used for arguably positive things, such as escaping thedraconian censorship imposed by the Chinese government on itsresidents. Dozens of organizations use automated scanners to find theseopen proxies and distribute the IP addresses. Hundreds ofthousands of wide-open proxiesexist on the Internet, allowinganyone to use them as anonymous hopping points to other Internetsites. ![]() The most frequentproblem is a failure to set appropriate access controls. ![]() Like firewalls and IDS, misconfigured proxies cancause far more security problems than they solve. Application-level proxies, particularly for the Web, have becomepopular due to perceived security and network efficiency (throughcaching) benefits. ![]()
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