Show HN: Proxy Orbit – Rotating Web Proxy API for Pentesting

by max0563 • 7 years ago

12 5 7 years ago

“We continually search the web for open proxy servers and save the working ones into our database.”

They’re charging for access to other people’s open proxies, without the other people knowing. This seems... disingenuous?

0xdeadb00f• 7 years ago

And potentially dangerous, right?. What's stopping me from creating a bunch of MITM proxy servers and just waiting until someone using this service rotates to mine?

From the website:

Using advanced proxy checking algorithms, we constantly monitor the quality of our proxies removing those that are no longer working.

What are these "advanced proxy checking algorithms" and how do they verify the security or authenticity of an open proxy on the net? They seem to mention the availability of their service, "Our checking algorithm is aggressive to ensure the highest likelihood of the proxy working when it gets to you." But mention nothing about the security implications of the potential breach of confidentiality if a malicious actor were to set up an open server.

yellowsir• 7 years ago

`&twitter=true` what about the other services? i wounder why one whould not just use domain names instead of going through the hassle of using a short name mapper?

k1e• 7 years ago

"Free" proxies are mostly misconfigured corporate private proxies or malware. Reselling them feels even more fraudulent than using them.

chaz6• 7 years ago

The website does not support IPv6, so I am guessing there are no IPv6 proxy servers either.

Show HN: Proxy Orbit – Rotating Web Proxy API for Pentesting

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