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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:21:26 -0400



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From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf () sethf com>
Date: July 9, 2004 8:04:48 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: Ip <ip () v2 listbox com>, "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Subject: Re: [IP] U.S. Army limits access to Web pages

[Feel free to forward to IP if worthy]
"Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com> write:
I'm not sure the exact technical tricks which are being used by the
Army, but they look relatively effective.

        Looking at the page, the Javascript code appears to traceable
to that used by the product "HTML Guardian".

http://www.protware.com/

        There's apparently an un-obsfucation program at the site:

http://delphi.cartall.com.pl/htmlguard/

        Though the site is in a foreign language, there's enough
English (well, Javascript) on it to get the gist.

        Agreed, this is very old stuff, well-understood, since it's
used so often by spammers and scammers.

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