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I move *somebody* creates that serves up something akin to a zip
bomb when hit from a rackspace address.<br>
Then we can all stand somewhere high up and look for the flames.<br>
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Oldest network tracing mechanism in the book, don't know what it
does? unplug it and see who complains ;-><br>
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On 25/06/12 09:50, Eric Pinkerton wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ausnoggers..<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Whilst there is a lot of tin foil hattery
and other spasticity on this WP Thread, <a
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- the questions it throws up have made me curious, esp given
Telstra’s official response in the following article “<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><a
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href="http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/305928,telstra-says-its-not-spying-on-users.aspx">http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/305928,telstra-says-its-not-spying-on-users.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><i>“<span
style="color:black;background:white">But in a short
statement, Telstra’s senior media boss Craig Middleton
said the company’s wireless network management assured
that “there is nothing untoward in what the Whirlpool
member has observed - <b>it is a normal network
operation” </b>NOTHING TO SEE HEAR MOVE ALONG.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
style="color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In short, if you make a
request to a web server on port 80 from a Telstra mobile,
you’ll see a request immediately after your legit request
from the Telstra gateway that originates from a US IP
address hosted at Rackspace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><i><span
style="color:#002060" lang="EN-US">Legit request..<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><i><span
style="color:#002060" lang="EN-US">58.163.xxx.xxx - -
[24/Jun/2012:23:12:09 +0000] "GET /test101 HTTP/1.1" 404
464 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_1_1 like Mac
OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1
Mobile/9B206 Safari/7534.48.3"<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><i><span
style="color:#002060;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><i><span
style="color:#002060;background:white">Curious identical
request follows…<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><i><span
style="color:#002060" lang="EN-US">50.57.190.97 - -
[24/Jun/2012:23:12:09 +0000] "GET /test101 HTTP/1.0" 404
526 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0"</span></i><b><i><span
style="color:#002060;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Whilst
I accept this is probably benign, and can think of several
reasons why the output of such a process might be of value
to Telstra, I find myself less convinced than a certain
senior media boss seems to be that this is “<i>a normal
network operation”. </i>To me normal would be to say pull
this info straight from the proxy server.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Also,
just to be awkward, I am curious as to why a cloud provider,
would be using what looks a lot like a cluster of VPS’s in
someone else’s cloud based out of Texas ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Also why is there a black helicopter
hovering above me? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So many questions….<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Discuss!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">E<o:p></o:p></p>
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