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To: Amarendra Godbole <amarendra.godbole@...>
Cc: OpenBSD general usage list <misc@...>
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 10:27 am

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 09:37:28AM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote:

The great majority of OpenBSD developers are from outside the United
States, and I would guess that most of us prefer not to visit the US now
thanks to the murderous foreign policy, authoritarian domestic
surveillance, and invasive border control. You'll find few of us there.

Personally I've been refusing invitations to go to, or even transit
through the United States for about 6 years. 


While in general the Internet is a pretty hostile place, you probably
need to worry about local network attacks (sniffing, man-in-the-middle)
more than usual.

Don't trust DNS, and tunnel tunnel your outgoing connections out through
ssh or ipsec (look at the -D flag to ssh, and make sure that your
browser uses the socks proxy for DNS lookups as well)

This advice applies equally to any time you're on an untrusted network
(Internet cafe, Open wirless access point, etc)
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Anyone from this list at BlackHat or DefCon? And a query..., Amarendra Godbole, (Thu Jun 26, 12:07 am)
Re: Anyone from this list at BlackHat or DefCon? And a query..., Jeffrey 'jf' Lim, (Thu Jun 26, 10:45 am)
Re: Anyone from this list at BlackHat or DefCon? And a query..., Ryan McBride, (Thu Jun 26, 10:27 am)
Re: Anyone from this list at BlackHat or DefCon? And a query..., Michiel van Baak, (Thu Jun 26, 10:04 am)
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