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08/09/2010 17:44:06
 
 
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08/09/2010 16:54:25
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Forum:
TV & Series
Category:
Americans
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01480496
Message ID:
01480622
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>>>What about hulu?
>>>
>>>http://www.hulu.com/covert-affairs
>>
>>"We're sorry, currently our video library can only be streamed within the United States"
>
>I admittedly know squat about this ( in contradiction to those who will claim I don't know squat about it) but isn't there some kind of proxy/anonomizer thingy you can go through so a website can't tell where you're coming from ?

Yes, with some caveats:

- The proxy may have bandwidth limitations; streamed video is a bandwidth hog

- You're explicitly setting up the proxy as a man-in-the-middle of everything you do over that link. Do you know who the proxy is? Are you sure they're not malicious?

- Even if the proxy itself isn't malicious, traffic to/from known proxies may be monitored. Imagine, for a moment, that you have some background in intelligence work. Wouldn't traffic through those sites be a yummy target for Carnivore or its descendants?
Regards. Al

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