Lance Delacroix <lance_delacroix@fastmail.fm> wrote in
news:ul03gvk9sphkulkj7t2sde525ft7bg0dh1@4ax.com:

> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 22:22:38 -0700, "John Smith"
> <assemblywizard10@yahoo.com> prounounced a fatwah thus:
>
>>I have been fighting to stop akamaitechnologies from communicating
>>with my computer, unsuccessfully. Any site, if unable to be blocked,
>>is a MAJOR break in any security one can have.
>>
>>Entries entered into the windows hosts file seems incapable of
>>blocking access,
>
> Too many entries required. You'll never catch up.
>
>> as is proxomitron and junkbuster,
>
> Ditto.
>
>> or even a personal firewall.
>
> Tried Sponge's blocklists for Kerio?
>
> Have you tried DNSKong?
>
>>
>>Rumors abound that this is in fact some method the fbi or other agency
>>has found to route all internet traffic though, and create records of
>>internet activity... I am undecided on this point...
>>
>>However, in my opinion, it seems that until this hole is blocked,
>>anyone using the internet should consider their security to have been
>>compromised...
>
> Akamai is kind of like Micro$haft: We're only stuck with them if we
> insist on using them.
>
>>
>>One method of seeing how easily akamaitechnologies is able to bypass
>>any security measure you can devise is as follows:
>>
>>1) access http://www.hotbot.com
>>2) do a search using any search term
>>3) drop to a dos prompt and type "netstat -a" (without the quotes ->
>>"'s) 4) in the list of connections to your computer will see something
>>like: a66-81-235-70.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com
>>
>>If anyone can block akamaitechnologies(also adamaitechnologies or
>>akamai) I would love to hear from them...
>
> I just tried your little test. I put "akamai" in the search box.
> There were no akamai entries in netstat. I did havea problem
> connecting to www.akamai.com , though. It's blocked completely.
>
> Fancy that.

Funny, I tried it without using any hosts files, proxomitron or dnskong,
i don't see akamai when doing a netstat.







Aaron
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