How to beat the censors?

[miko2d]

Guys,
 My wife's company instituted a new policy on internet use. While occasional use of Internet is allowed, plenty of most usefull sites are blocked for no apparent reason.
 They blocked Barns&Noble where she buys the books needed for work, Pottery Barn (but not Crate and Barrel), BabiesRUs and others.

 They will probably sort it out eventually, but for now it's a hassle.

 I heard there are some resources and proxy servers that allow you to browse stuff through them to avoid being blocked. Or something.
 Could anyone refer me to any information regarding such resources or any way to beat the filterning.

 Thanks,
 miko

[jihad]

www.multiproxy.org

[the_hegemon]

https://www.safeweb.com or https://www.triangleboy.com

both are the same thing, just on different IP addresses last time i checked, works very well.

[Nifty]

if your filter is good, it blocks the sites that allow you to go around the proxy.  

[Vulcan]

Triangleboy also has the following reflectors:
https://128.223.22.54:8443
https://164.125.144.65

BUT personally my favourite is www.orangatango.com

Its much faster than safeweb.

[Kieran]

If I read correctly, he wants to bypass the security of the server using another software program. Unless I read incorrectly, all the sites listed in reply were for proxy software that will block sites.

Have I misread?

[Vulcan]

No, safeweb (triangleboy is a reflector for it) and orangatango are Virtual Web browsers that use HTTPS (port 443) encrypted SSL traffic.

IE:
- you go to orangatango
- it starts a virtual browser in your web browser
- it routers all your web traffic via orangatango who send it to you encrypted and securely on the https protocol (443), ie the proxy/censor software only sees the data as coming from orangatango, and as unintelligable garbage as its encrypted.

[Kieran]

Vulcan-

I thought that might be what you meant, thanks for the info!

[StSanta]

Ya need to be careful though; I've read in reputable computer industry magazine that illegal surfing can be used as a ground of firing someone. It's happened before and isn't as rare as one might think.

It's basically going against formal business processes and rules and management are usually not very tolerant of that.

[ 08-15-2001: Message edited by: StSanta ]

[Nifty]

Originally posted by StSanta:
It's basically going against formal business processes and rules and management are usually not very tolerant of that

He's right.  Here we sign a acceptable use policy thingie to make it an official grounds for firing.

[Vulcan]

No acceptable use policies specify you may NOT use web services such as Safeweb or Orangatango. Its just where you go and how much time you spend on those services.

[cvb---]

Can IT people find out what kind of sites one is going to through the safeweb? I guess not  

Surprisingly, I need to use this site to go to one of the work-related sites  

[Fury]

Can't an IT person see the traffic on these sites and just block them?  Safeweb and Orangatango?  Heck the company I work at (under 70 employees) keeps track of a ton of Internet data, every week I can see details like how long I've been at hitechcreations.com and how many bytes I have transferred, or how long I've been connected to the internet.....just waiting for the IT police to tell me to stop surfing so much.

[cvb---]

I think they can but they didn't realize that they should yet   For example, I can't use www.anonymizer.com  from work (that's probably one of the oldest "anonymity" web sites).

[hblair]

Are you guys as creative and persistent in doing your job as you are in trying to sneak around behind your employers back?