full-disclosure - IE is just as safe as FireFox

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From: danbuk at gmail.com (DanB UK)
Subject: IE is just as safe as FireFox

Hi,
> Agreed. But if the idea is to protect your internal clients from your
> intranet web servers, the proxy isn't doing much for you. Plus again,
> someone can just configure their machine to not use the proxy as mentioned
> previously. If the machines are available on the public intranet without
> having to go through some firewall, you can't slap much of a guarantee on
> things not reaching them except via your proxy. You mention setting up
> routing ACL policies for HTTP traffic further down. This isn't something
> that is reasonable to manage in a large organization and does nothing from
> stopping people from selecting alternate ports.

Well if you stick a firewall inbetween and limit to only 80/443 and
then redirect the requests to a web proxy(I know there are issues with
https proxying, like MTM). Then you can filter/drop do what ever you
like.

Cheers,
Dan.

-- 
DanB UK
London, UK