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Old 04-25-2006, 04:42 AM   #1
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Bypassing company Proxies

Don't you all hate it as well?
Just because your only interest is, well, boobs and your boss is either gay or catholic (or an unholy mixture of both) you have a crappy word- and ip-filter that keeps you away from the sites you'd need sooooo badly!

But there's a solution called "CGI-Proxies".

One example could be found here:
http://greenrabbit.org/

Just type in any URL into the form and you're good to go.
BTW, the owner of this page honestly sucks, since he stole the script from
http://whitefyre.com/poxy/
and completely removed all links to the origin site, so I decided to put his site up here in case he may have to pay for the bandwidth.

Enjoy
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Old 04-25-2006, 05:13 AM   #2
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ack, just another sign that I work in a totally dysfunctional workplace.

My boss encourages porn viewing, his favorite trick is to leave a few windows open on his desktop with gross acts on them...so when I go to finish a finance application...I close a window and cop an eyeful....very hard not to react in front of clients.

Control H can be scary at my work.
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Old 04-25-2006, 05:30 AM   #3
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That's because you're Australian!
Man, if I was surrounded by Cangaroos and Wallabies, I'd watch porn all day long as well.
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Old 04-25-2006, 07:50 AM   #4
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Be careful with your use of passwords and other inportant information when using third-party proxy servers. Otherwise go at it!
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Old 04-25-2006, 08:35 AM   #5
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Also if your connection to the proxy is not encrypted, don't ignore the possibility that traffic on the local network is being scanned/sniffed.

If it is encrypted, don't ignore the possibility that a large amount of encrypted traffic to some random place will raise a flag.

It all depends how paranoid you want to be, and how hard they're trying to find stuff.
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Old 04-26-2006, 06:28 AM   #6
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Be careful with your use of passwords and other inportant information when using third-party proxy servers. Otherwise go at it!
Abolutely agree!
That's why I have my own version of this script running on my own server as well.
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Old 04-26-2006, 08:58 AM   #7
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At my work they track every keystroke you make. One wrong stroke and you are a goner. The internet is not so important to me that I would risk my career looking at boobs. I can just look in the mirror or look down if I want to see a couple.

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Old 04-26-2006, 09:01 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by DucksNuts
ack, just another sign that I work in a totally dysfunctional workplace.

My boss encourages porn viewing, his favorite trick is to leave a few windows open on his desktop with gross acts on them...so when I go to finish a finance application...I close a window and cop an eyeful....very hard not to react in front of clients.

Control H can be scary at my work.

Not sure about you Aussies, but here in The States you could own him for doing that.
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Old 04-26-2006, 10:46 AM   #9
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You can also use the unoffical Google proxy: follow this link back to the cellar -

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=cellar.org

just change the URL at the end. It uses the Google Translator, but it's set to translate from English to English, so it doesn't alter the data at all, just passes it through.
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Old 04-26-2006, 09:50 PM   #10
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I don't get it.....if your employers system is filtering bad content, what difference does it make where it comes from?
If they are screening for, or blocking, certain websites, ok, but Elspode said net nanny blocks selected threads so they must be screening language.
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Old 04-26-2006, 10:38 PM   #11
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My employer uses a Symantec product, and it is indeed triggered by words, among other things (it also has blacklisted urls, IPs and servers as far as I can tell). For example, there are several threads here that I can read down a ways, but then it is cut off with a message telling me that the contents of the page have exceeded the allowable score for language (it apparently assigns a numerical value to each questionable word...have enough of them on one web page, and *bingo*! You're done)

It is even slightly forgiving. A single instance of the word "fuck" is replaced by ---- on my monitor. Too many ----'s on the page, though, and I get the Symantec banner and the "Naughty Naughty" message.
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Old 04-27-2006, 09:38 PM   #12
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OK, so in that case a proxie wouldn't help, except to get to a blacklisted URL.
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