IP: Security Holes in Web Privacy Program

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>

     Security Holes in Web Privacy Program
     - May 21, 2002 03:32 AM (AP Online)

By D. IAN HOPPER
AP Technology Writer
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) - A popular Internet privacy service that lets
Web surfers visit sites anonymously has fixed several serious
flaws, and now the service's founder is offering a reward to the
finder of the bugs.
  Bennett Haselton, an Internet filtering activist who runs the
Peacefire Web site, found the problems with Anonymizer.com, a
five-year-old service that shields users from tracking by Web sites
and their Internet providers.
  Haselton ``came up with a new way of exploiting (Web)
standards,'' Anonymizer president Lance Cottrell explained Monday.
``They're pretty subtle.''
  Many major commercial sites cringe when security researchers
find a hole. But Anonymizer actually encourages it through a ``bug
bounty.''
  Haselton's reward: three free years of the Anonymizer service,
which costs $50 a year. Cottrell said the offer stands for anyone
else who can find security holes in the service.

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http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=27257112


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