From: msprague@ridgecrest.ca.us
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 21:15:20 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: NEWS: Web Security Hole Revealed (opportunity?)
Message-ID: <199612130514.VAA04501@owens.ridgecrest.ca.us>
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>At 11:14 PM 12/11/96 -0500, you wrote:
>>X-Sender: okeefe@olympus.net
>>Mime-Version: 1.0
>>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 19:32:32 -0800
>>To: N E W S   R E L E A S E  <IPS@olympus.net>
>>From: "Steve O'Keefe" <IPS@olympus.net>
>>Subject: NEWS: Web Security Hole Revealed
>>
>>BREAKING NEWS
>>For Release Thursday, December 12, 1996
>>
>>MAJOR  WEB  SECURITY  FLAW  REVEALED
>>
>>(New York) -- Edward Felten, head of Princeton University's
>>Safe Internet Programming Team (SIP), today revealed a
>>major security flaw in the Internet's World Wide Web.
>>Called "web spoofing," the breach allows any Internet
>>server to place itself between a user and the rest of the
>>web. In that middle position, the server may observe, steal
>>and alter any information passing between the unfortunate
>>browser and the web.

(deletia)


Wait a minuite;  This sounds like an opportunity!
I see a possibility for a machine confugured to tx/rx PGP encrypted packets
to re-broadcast them with the machines IP.
This would become an anonymous ISP