| How to access your fav. sites at work/school
Posted: 10/1/2006 10:11:25 AM | Let me begin first by saying that there are ethical considerations when taking the steps listed here.
I work for a company that encourages its staff to be on yahoo IM so we can communicate with other people quickly. When I am sent on a client's site and need to check my e-mail to communicate with a family member, and discover that the clients' policies do not allow for personal e-mail checking, it is generally a good idea to respect their limits.
But sometimes I admit i have respected that limit by bending the rules. Accessing pornography or hate propaganda is never in my interest but if I am expecting a very important e-mail from a family member or another business interest while I am inside a restricted firewall zone, I am left with no other choice.
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| How to access your fav. sites at work/school
Posted: 10/1/2006 10:43:01 AM | but if I am expecting a very important e-mail from a family member or another business interest while I am inside a restricted firewall zone, I am left with no other choice.
There is no Requirement for any Employer to provide either the Means or the Time for you to conduct personal Business on Company Time. They are fully within their Rights to deny such Services to you. Nor are they required to provide computer Access to anyone working in Rice Paddies.
Get a Cel Phone.
My main motivation was to help PUBLIC high school students access the internet from school where not allowed. It is my belief that, in a system where resources are paid for by the public, no unelected bureaucrat should be allowed to set up a fascist/vigilantism set of policies.
The Public has elected those to administer that System by Policies, or entrusted those with such Capacity. Just because the Public pays for it, doesn't mean you get to do what you want. | |
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| How to access your fav. sites at work/school
Posted: 10/1/2006 11:18:28 AM |
My office has their own server. Won't my surfing other sites still be logged?
No it won't.
Your office server will ONLY see a connection to your computer at home. You will route a request to (for example), open plentyoffish.com to your computer at home. Your computer at home will then send the encrypted data back to the server at work and that server will route it to your terminal. This web traffic will be encrypted.
People in china, saudi arabia, and countries like burma are using this method to view content in its raw form on the internet.
Awareness of this method is far less common than its simplicity.
Ticketoride:
This isn't an attack on you the person or you the lawyer. What part of my disclaimer and notice of discretion did you not understand?
A company where i once worked was bugged. There were cameras everywhere and the phone they gave me was tapped.
I never said it was "my right" to access the internet anywhere I like. And i was careful to use the word, "bend" the rules. Company policies say you can't use the internet connection at that company which I am fully complying with. I used the internet connection at home. | |
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| How to access your fav. sites at work/school
Posted: 10/1/2006 11:33:43 AM | Wow, so if you can't go through a work day without access to your personal email or POF or any other internet site I'd wonder what's up with that.
Of course in the case of family emergencies or VERY important issues most companies, if not all make allowances for communication through the phone.
I'd say sneaking on the net generally speaking is unnecessary and dangerous to your employment status if your company or organization has rules against this.
to each their own though....... | |
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| How to access your fav. sites at work/school
Posted: 10/1/2006 11:59:09 AM |
I'd say sneaking on the net generally speaking is unnecessary and dangerous to your employment status if your company or organization has rules against this.
I agree with you on this assessment. There's no reason to risk your job for something as diddly as your personal e-mail.
Only the very experienced and advanced users should do this. Not that I am saying you need to be at that level.
If not for the sake of defying your manager, from a scientific perspective, it makes a great case study for companies who pay tens of millions of dollars to expensive security consultants for the illusion of "Security" while someone who knows what they're doing can punch enough holes in the firewall to make it sound like a clarinet. | |
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| How to access your fav. sites at work/school
Posted: 10/1/2006 12:06:36 PM | This isn't an attack on you the person ... What part of my disclaimer and notice of discretion did you not understand?
The Point of this Query? A Not-Withstanding Clause ... lol
Your 'Disclaimers' or 'Discretions', albeit irrelevant to my reply, facilitate what Point in response to my Post of you "bending" the Rules?
Your Post sought nothing other than a Series of soft-peddled, watered-down Justifications on how to bypass and circumvent existing Securities (Hack) by a Company & Public Systems which prevented and denied specific/general Computer Access or Services.
A Portion of your Message Body on how to do that has been removed.
Do not post it again. This Forum is not a Medium/Billboard for that, and may in Fact be illegal, minimally highly improper, to sponsor/promote other People to hack/bypass Computer Security Systems, esp. Public ones.
Your Post stated: It is my belief that, in a system where resources are paid for by the public, no unelected bureaucrat should be allowed to set up a fascist/vigilantism set of policies.
My Response above: The Public has elected those to administer that System by Policies, or entrusted those with such Capacity. Just because the Public pays for it, doesn't mean you get to do what you want.
What part of that do you not understand?
But sometimes I admit i have respected that limit by bending the rules ... but if I am expecting a very important e-mail from a family member or another business interest while I am inside a restricted firewall zone, I am left with no other choice.
As I said, get a Cel Phone. What part of that do you not understand?
You were looking for lame Excuses to post Procedures/Links how to break through Computer Security Systems. | |
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| How to access your fav. sites at work/school
Posted: 10/3/2006 7:37:50 AM | Accessing the internet from work.....good topic.
I work in a Call Center - no cell phones are permitted to be used, especially those with cameras, unless in a designated area (Cafeteria, Smoke Deck).
Internet access is very limited, as the client we work for runs a very tight access software. If it's not related to the job, chances are you won't be able to access. If it is accessed, you won't be able to shortly after, as all traffic is logged by the software.
There are ways to get around this by using a proxy server. Think of it like using a Long Distance calling card by calling a 1 800 number. Simply, the number you call is charged the long distance, where you get to use the service for a fee.
With this analogy, you access a special URL, and then you access the page of your choice through that page. Of course, the software also cracks down on these sites, but cannot see what you've accessed from the page, even though you still access data from somewhere else.
Of course, these servers are also being logged by software. This policy we're under is enforced to make sure things are productive, without wasting company time when you're supposed to be working.
When it gets slow on the evening shift (after midnight), there's other things we do. Many are into crochet, knitting, crosswords, and the good ole book every once in awhile. Since I work with computers, I have my magazines to read, and a good math set for designing arcade controls for a computer. Keeps me busy.
There used to be a laxed policy, but since they had the new client, things have been very strict, as the access policy was in our contract. The company still allows the above, which is fine by us...but anything else (playing cards, chess, Game Boys, MP3 players) have been since been banned from the facility. | |
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| How to access your fav. sites at work/school
Posted: 10/3/2006 7:52:02 AM | Bottom line is that if you're working you are on company time and not personal time. Everything you do should be to benefit your employer, not yourself.
20 years ago people didn't even have cell phones, nor internet to the extent we do now. And let me tell you something.
We did fine.
If you're not allowed to use your cell phone at work it's because it's not your time. What if someone needs to get a hold of you immediately in an emergency?
They can call your place of work, explain to your superior that it is important and they WILL get you.
That's how it was done 20 year ago and guess what?
We did fine.
I'm amazed that people have this false idea that they need to be able to be reached at all times. Before cell phones you had a message from a friend on your answering machine at home and you simply called them back when you got home.....
Why do some people always feel they need to talk to someone? After class at least 10 people immediately call a friend and I hear "What's up?" Why the need? | |
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| How to access your fav. sites at work/school
Posted: 10/3/2006 9:03:51 PM | CGI proxy? do you mean an http proxy server at home?
there is only one problem. you might have a proxy server set up at work and you must pass through it. you might even have to authenticate yourself against it.
My method, not valid for discussion anymore, involved an ssh server, socks and putty.
this way you don't circumvent the proxy or bypass it. Instead you utilize it by routing your requests to another system & everything is encrypted.
the specific steps, though publicly available aren't kosher on PoF. | |
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| How to access your fav. sites at work/school
Posted: 10/7/2006 7:19:21 PM | There is always a way to do these things, but as other people have stated why?
Why jepordize your job, or get caught breaking a company rule and be made an example off.
There are always good reasons as polocies that restict employees from accessing the internet.
The most abvous one that I have seen with my own eyes at work and yes I too am guilty of is surrfing when I shoulb be working -)
If it was me I would use Cygwin and tunnel out of the work PC, of course you need a BSD, Linux box to tunnel into, then from Cygwin you can start a secure encypted X session, run lets sya Firefox, Tbird etc.
I have done this one myslef but it takes a lot of understanding and a lot of work to set up properly, in no way did I break any rules from my employer as part of my job requires access to the Internet and external email. | |
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| How to access your fav. sites at work/school
Posted: 10/7/2006 8:39:53 PM |
If it was me I would use Cygwin and tunnel out of the work PC, of course you need a BSD, Linux box to tunnel into, then from Cygwin you can start a secure encypted X session, run lets sya Firefox, Tbird etc.
WOW! that's a very long way out of the corporate firewall maze.
Actually you can set up cygwin on windows too and you don't need firefox but IE doesn't support remote dns lookup on a socks proxy, which socks5 now supports.
I'd simply go with an ssh server - like open ssh.
What's been edited out of my first post is commonly available on the net, but poorly documented | |
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