full-disclosure - Re: Removing the NIC cable = EoP?

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Message-Id: <200610031437.k93EbGDw007982@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:37:16 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: c0redump@...ers.org.uk
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Removing the NIC cable = EoP?

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:16:07 BST, c0redump@...ers.org.uk said:

> How is the user able to get the internet while the network cable is unplugged?

Well, assuming the hack actually *works*, once you're logged on as a local
admin, you're free to plug the cable back in. (If the *real* issue here is
that your profile isn't available, it might get interesting if it happens to
show up once you're logged in.  But I seem to remember that GPO is only
applied at logon, because you have to bounce active users to push a new
one.  I'm not a windows guy so I may be wrong thought...)

> Secondly, it is the proxy server in 99% of cases which restricts which
> websites the user can/cannot visit, not the local policies.

One might hope that.  But there's an awful lot of McSE (you want fries with that)
out there that:

a) Don't know how to set up a proxy server, but do know how to set a local policy.
b) Don't understand the difference between "default deny" and "default allow",
and why one leads to whack-a-mole website hunting....

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