by Alec Muffett
As an author interestingly cited by Robert Scoble, Dana Epp writes the following:
Yesterday in class I was telling students about the benefits of utilizing anonymous proxies for doing competitive intelligence and surfing to questionable sites […]
Oh? Really?
Looks like she’s a Scorpion Software employee (www.scorpionsoft.com/blog/) and I suspect her “benefit” quote is a thinko given the all the rest of it talks about “danger”.
Mind you, the quote:
“Remember that scanning hosts that you don’t own or have permission to should be frowned upon.”
is also rather amusing.. 🙂
Chris
I had no idea she was at MSFT. We used to chat on IRC regularly.
That is a great quote, though. It really, really is.
I’ve updated the text to reflect Chris’ findings; I do find notion that anon-proxy usage for competitive intelligence searching might be “beneficial” to be very interesting.
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