Aaron wrote:
> Lance Delacroix <lance_delacroix@fastmail.fm> wrote in
> news:ul03gvk9sphkulkj7t2sde525ft7bg0dh1@4ax.com:
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>>On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 22:22:38 -0700, "John Smith"
>><assemblywizard10@yahoo.com> prounounced a fatwah thus:
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>>>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,
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>>Too many entries required. You'll never catch up.
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>>>as is proxomitron and junkbuster,
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>>Ditto.
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>>>or even a personal firewall.
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>>Tried Sponge's blocklists for Kerio?
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>>Have you tried DNSKong?
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>>>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...
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>>>However, in my opinion, it seems that until this hole is blocked,
>>>anyone using the internet should consider their security to have been
>>>compromised...
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>>Akamai is kind of like Micro$haft: We're only stuck with them if we
>>insist on using them.
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>>>One method of seeing how easily akamaitechnologies is able to bypass
>>>any security measure you can devise is as follows:
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>>>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...
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>>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.
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>>Fancy that.
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> Funny, I tried it without using any hosts files, proxomitron or dnskong,
> i don't see akamai when doing a netstat.

Maybe you're connecting directly to hotbot.com w/out going through an
Akamai proxy.

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