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thats good just hope someone isnt logging you. I know of some users who have tried some well known companies open proxies ie. datapro and stormnet and they got it bad after caught.
 
How do they get to find these open proxies? And why are they left open in the first place or is by mistake? Any one knows?
 
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Noble_Nanobot said:
How do they get to find these open proxies? And why are they left open in the first place or is by mistake? Any one knows?
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Well if they are that stupid then who cares :rolleyes:
 
Well generally to misconfiguration, some guy puts up his new server, doesn't bother to check whats actually running on it and ends up with an open proxy!
We all know bandwidth is a premium in SA and the chance that someone is giving it away for free is extremely rare! And the fact that these proxies close down soon after becoming public also says that they aren't really "free", guess the dude realised something was wrong when all his bandwidth was used up!

Its common, i've even seen ADSL users having a open proxy on their own machine, just think you can proxy of your neighbour, till he gets capped!!!
 
What clipse said.

Your being logged, your also stealing. Up to you if you want to continue, but don't blame us if you get a fat bill and a criminal record.
 
I agree with Clipse...so the sysadmin sits and off-chance runs a quick check through his log files...sees a hostname he doesn't recognize and is, like, OMGWTF?!...tracks it back to a poor capped ADSL user (With the help of Telkom, of course...they ARE out to scr3w us) and wham-bam thank you maam...you sit without internet and probably a mase stuk fine as well.

Or they'll just burn your house down.
 
What if you apologize profusely.
Will they still burn your house down?
 
Its not really that simple. In order for telkom to give your information out they need something like a warrant from the police/judge or whatever.

If telkom gives your information out, you can sue them for invasion of privacy or something 2 that effect
 
this does not involve telkom at all, a private log on your proxy is enough to take a user to the court.
 
Clipse said:
this does not involve telkom at all, a private log on your proxy is enough to take a user to the court.
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Telkom or ISP is required to work out who - you cannot take an IP/hostname to court
 
Edinetz said:
Telkom or ISP is required to work out who - you cannot take an IP/hostname to court
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Yes you can take a ip/hostname to court and then force telkom to provide the user who access it information.
 
Regarding the legality of using these proxy servers, what exactly is a website like that doing, listing all of those servers if it's illegal? Or are "some" of these legal?
 
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