No GWJ @ work anymore!
Thursday, June 28th, 2007 - 8:59pm
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That happened to me 2 years ago. Websense is the devil! Oh wait, I'm supposed to be working.
It's time for you to learn to tunnel around filters.
St.Hillary wrote:
Commence your hatred, gentlemen.That is not so easy either, all outbound ports are blocked. Also any "Anonymous Surfing" is blocked also. Unless you have someting I am unaware of.
I work for the Government on the Network - unfortnately I am on the Layer 2 side of the house and not boundary.
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or google "anonymous proxy" -- its ridiculously easy to get around.
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You would think that, but as he points out, DoD is notoriously good at blocking proxy sites.
My personal suggestion, and I say this from ABSOLUTELY NO PERSONAL EXPERIENCE *cough*, would be to set up a server at home and use that as a proxy. If you can install SSH at work, use that to tunnel a secure connection home, and from there use remote desktop + X to launch firefox. That should do you up quite nicely. In theory. Because I'm an upstanding young Airman, and would never, ever do such a thing. Ever.
Coldstream wrote:
That sort of stuff gets people fired where I work. Just saying.
Yeah, you need to be careful about getting around restrictions like that if you're not the one in charge of making them.
If you do decide to figure out a workaround, I would recommend that you setup your home server to listen on 443 (standard port for https). This has the advantage of looking like a secured web connection, something they'd expect to see encrypted traffic on.
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It's a federal felony where myself and armedbushido work, which is precisely why I HAVE NEVER EVER DONE IT AND NEVER EVER WILL. IT IS BAD AND WRONG. However, if he's insistant, it's the only workable solution.
That would indeed be the google recommended method.
Coldstream wrote:
Ack, didn't know you worked for the DoD. Not too terribly sure about trying to escape those filters... (Not out of fear for their competence, just government agencies are paranoid)
St.Hillary wrote:
Commence your hatred, gentlemen.In the interests of self preservation, I would hope that you hop on over to the nearest internet cafe during lunch =)
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Wait, Isn't GWJ a "an authorized mission critical website"?
I'll second the remote desktop connection method.
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Bypassing work filters is wrong. And bad. There should be a new, stronger word for bypassing work filters. Like badwrong, or badong.
All this science I don't understand. It's just my job five days a week.
I did manage once to convince a boss that I should be allowed to surf some sites that would normally be blocked. (They blocked gmail for heavens sake.) My argument was that if other employees could take a 15 minute smoke break every hour, then I could take a 15 minute surf a game site or scifi.com break, since I did not smoke AND was still able to work my job while surfing. He reasonably agreed.
Sometimes it does not hurt to ask.
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Perfect use! I love that movie.
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Hey man, I'm not trying to get anyone fired ... (grin)
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"In other news, Miyamoto pissed on my head, and gave me a forecast of rain." - *Le
Do this:
a) do you have an office-issued laptop ? Maybe they can give you one.
b) chances are it has Bluetooth
c) if you have a Bluetooth-enabled phone like Samsung A920(sp?), it may also have undocumented Internet access that is accessible via a Google search and an additional $15 per month (if its Sprint)
d) Bring a cell charger to work, connect the cell to it, and connect the laptop via Bluetooth to your cellphone.
I've done this, it worked. It gave me about 35-40k/s with Sprint (they have higher speeds if you're willing to go official and pay $50 per month), which was enough for sites like GWJ but not enough for Youtube.
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What about using a mobile device of some kind (WiFi, EVDO or UMTS) and using it to surf the web?
I use an RSS reader on my WinMo device occasionally, and sometimes post to forums and such, too.
Nya, Nya, Nya! ENOUGH!
Holy crap am I glad I work in a small company.
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Try 'doublepluswrong'. Works for Orwell!
MechaSlinky wrote:
-on L4DIf we help him get around it... does that make us terrorists?
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I, too, work for the DoD and dread the day I come in and find GWJ blocked. It hasn't happened yet. But YouTube and PhotoBucket are blocked, so I can't see most of the Post a Video thread and a good part of the Post a Picture thread.
(Guys, use www.Imageshack.us for the pictures, I can still see those.)
I'm not lost. I'm locationally challenged.
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I plame the P&C threads, really.
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Yeah, I've seen Plame mentioned there several times.
All this science I don't understand. It's just my job five days a week.
Dude, deal with it. I love GWJ but I wouldn't risk my job for it.
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You have a job?
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Didn't you know ? Webcam strippers aren't allowed to surf the Internet.