On 10 Jun 1999, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> >
> > Uh... last I checked, .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 files were binary and didn't
> > contain enough to filter something (and filters don't operate on binary
> > material for the most part anyway).
>
> Someone has a treat coming, then, if he ever tries to send a binary
> through one of those filters containing the sequence 7ee7247ee7247ee724.
> That is, if it gets base64 encoded as usual.
>
> This type of filters is just silly. But then, so is the concept they try
> to enforce.
>
Just an interesting off-topic word about Internet filters -- I
experimented with BESS (aka N2H2) and found out that they filter based on
at least three criteria: (1) URL, (2) Ports, and (3) CGI parameters.
This means that they don't censor wordpatterns or anything like that. I
found that to be quite interesting.
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