[Bobboau]

my school has a security firewall that prevents access to all sorts of stuff, if you so much as type the name of a certan p2p program you'll get a visit from scurity. problem is sometimes it's too agressive, and sometimes it blocks pages for no reason, never here but on warpstorm it'll block a page that it let through a minute ago, and an hour later it'll let me get to it. also there have been a bunch of times were ssomeone wanted to access some totaly legal media (all mp3s are banned as are internet radios) so is there a proxy or something that I could use to get around this? preferably something that I wouldn't have to intall.

[kasperl]

Probably not easily, but it depends on how it blocks. Just the URL? Does it scan for text? If you had your own webserver, one possible cheat is making a page in PHP that converts all characters in a page to UTF. Might screw up the filter.

[deep_eyes]

of schools outright block P2P programs because they cant filter legit from illegal or whatever the use may be. some schools monitor the "desktop" pc's so they can track em down, wifi however seems to getby this for some odd reason in my school.

[Bobboau]

I remember someone postinf an HTML anonumus proxy type thing, you went to it's adress it had a form were you entered a url and from there it redirected everything if anyone knows were that (or something like it) is, I think that would be worth a try.

BTW one of the security measures is knowen as 'smooth gaurdian' or something of that effect, if this helps any. (they also have deepfreeze on everything).

and when I said they ban all MP3s I meant if you uploaded a file and it ended in '.mp3' I would be unable to download it, despite the fact that nobodyshares like that.

[Fenrir]

Originally posted by Bobboau
I remember someone postinf an HTML anonumus proxy type thing, you went to it's adress it had a form were you entered a url and from there it redirected everything if anyone knows were that (or something like it) is, I think that would be worth a try.

Here's a good way to find them. http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=lang_en&safe=off&q=%3Fintitle%3Astart.using.cgiproxy%3F&btnG=Search

And if those turned out to be blocked (or dead, as many of 'em are), add https:// into the search. I've found by experience they don't block the "secure" ones.

*Wonders if posting these sorts of things is a no-no or not*

[StratComm]

What, a Proxy?  They're perfectly legal and in some cases necessary.  Admittedly, the ones you'd use to try to circumvent a firewall are probably not used for any "official" purpose, but there's nothing wrong with them either.  At least for now.

[Fenrir]

I figured that, but couldn't be too sure. It's just like P2P things in that how you use 'em determines how "bad" they are.

[Bobboau]

looks like there blocked

I'm going to step away from the computer for a few mintes in case the suits arive

[Fenrir]

Even the https ones? And I thought my school blocked too much crap.

[StratComm]

Wow, talk about your restrictive firewalls.

Using a proxy even for an unofficial purpose is not in and of itself bad.  Using it to download something illegally isn't even any wrongdoing on the part of using the proxy, since you're still just using it to obtain a different IP (and hopefully not get caught).  Unlike P2P, which requires you to actually use the program to get the content, the proxy just redirects it to you so that the sender can't see who you are.  It's just a tool to let you use a different IP address.

[Bobboau]

I think they blocked them manualy, that would be my guess.

[StratComm]

*pictures a horde of monkeys sitting around watching computer screens listing every outgoing request, and blocking the "questionable" ones*

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[WMCoolmon]

Is this from the dorms?

If not, maybe you could get ahold of one of those USB wireless-G dongles and use that to pick up some unsuspecting freshman's unsecured wireless.

[Bobboau]

no, school computer, school network, they have wifi, but it's still there network.

[Descenterace]

Apparently, some wi-fi Internet cafes leave the ping port open (while making you log in to use any other port). I'm considering running a proxy on port 1959 of my server...