Although I’ve been collecting and reporting on them ever since they first showed up last year, I had never tried to use a Koobface (port 8085) proxy until a few days ago. The reason being, I tend to avoid using US, UK, and Canadian proxies out of pure legal paranoia. I like to keep my ass covered.
So when a French Koobface proxy showed up on The List last week I thought I’d give it a shot.
It sucked out loud.
No matter what URL I punched in, it would only take me to the top level of the site, which makes me wonder how the Hell it ever passed a proxy judge, since none of them are top-level URLs. After a dozen or so clicks, it just stopped working. I couldn’t even connect.
Once it died I had to think twice about the wisdom of using a Koober proxy for anything, even “educational” purposes. A connection to port 8085 could be a Big Red Flag to anyone with half a lick of security sense monitoring the line here or in France or anywhere in between. And don’t kid yourself, “they” are watching.
That’s why port 80 proxies are probably best (or maybe third, with SSL at number one followed closely by a SOCKS proxy on an oddball port). Hiding in plain site is a good way to go.
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