How do you bypass school/corporate internate filters

[nizzy1115]

After reading the dig article "Kids Outsmart Web Filters" which links to a CNet News Article . I was wondering what measures you have used or know that have been used to bypass internet filters. I have the sole interest of securing internet access in my schools.
Thanks guys!

[server_crash]

Ever heard of anonymous proxies?

[nizzy1115]

I've heard of lots of different ways. Proxies being the easiest and most prevelent way to do it. But it is simple to ban all proxies from being accessed. I read through all of the replys to the dig article and there are lots of ingenous responses, but i was wondering if there were any others that daniweb's people know about that not many others do.

[server_crash]

Doesn't matter if they ban proxies. Chances are they already have. If you access it via a secure connection then there's nothing they can do about it.

www.proxify.com will be blocked by the filter, but if you type:

https://proxify.com then it will work perfectly.

[Comatose]

When I was in the army, they had filters. The problem I had wasn't that I wanted to look at porn or anything silly, but that even legit e-mail sites were locked out. Being a programmer, with access to a linux box that was outside of the network, I wrote a perl script that allowed me to type in the URL, and it used the LWP module to retrieve the HTML, added a base tag to the HTML (to expand all relative paths) and modified the links so that it referenced my perl program, so that it could get the HTML for the HREF'd page, and saved the HTML file on to the server (the linux box running perl, which was also a web-server). I suppose the concept is a proxy, but when someone can program, you have just lost over half of your power to lock them out of things.

[MIGSoft]

hehe...in my school the internet security was simple (that was long time ago, like 5 years). We were not allowed to use forums, look at porn, write email, and go to controversial websites, and play games. Security? Two old ladies ran around the computer lab looking over everybody's shoulder trying to see if they were doing anything wrong. Given their illiteracy, I was caught and warned many times for programming in C++, and VB (they did not even know what it was, but if they dont know, its illegal). Having a DOS window (to run some program), got me yelled at many times. Ahh...the good old days.

[BeastOverlordH6]

I save all my flash games to my account's document folder.
::insert evil smiley face::
::get back to playing Madness Interactive::

[ardentsunshine]

yep proxies thats how we do it. We set up a php proxy and someone hosted it. Are school blocked stuff randomly like CNN. Then they made it so you couldn't change the proxy but we went into the registry and edited the actual value or ran live linux and changed the proxy in there. You can also use firefox.

[ardentsunshine]

I save all my flash games to my account's document folder. ::insert evil smiley face:: ::get back to playing Madness Interactive::

Watch out at my school people get banned for that usb flash drives are better. We ran Quake III off of a cd. We took the installed files and copyed em to a cd

[ardentsunshine]

Doesn't matter if they ban proxies. Chances are they already have. If you access it via a secure connection then there's nothing they can do about it.

www.proxify.com will be blocked by the filter, but if you type:

https://proxify.com then it will work perfectly.

http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html

for IE go to tools->internet options->connections->lan settings-> x the box to use a proxy and enter the ip for that proxy and port prob. 8080 or 80 for http

[EriCartman13]

Ehhh. I, an 8th grader, used www.proxify.com and www.surfatwork.com

But that got blocked. So now we go into the cmd and type ping www.myspace.com and insert the ip address into the address bar. So this gets past all of our blocks. O yea I need to try server crash's way. I loved usuing proxify.

[server_crash]

You can also set proxy options in the tools/option menu to some ip address that allows it. That way you don't have to constantly go through proxify. There is also a way to edit the URL to include a specific port number or something, but I don't remember how to do it.

[EriCartman13]

You can also set proxy options in the tools/option menu to some ip address that allows it. That way you don't have to constantly go through proxify. There is also a way to edit the URL to include a specific port number or something, but I don't remember how to do it.

Your way didn't work for proxify.

[ardentsunshine]

they blocked the use of proxies and our school. Basically any unkownd ip address is blocked and they block all but non essential ports. I don't really use proxies at school becasue the main thing I used them for was games but now that we run live versions of quake off of cds I don't care.

[EriCartman13]

Yea I tried to change the proxy by going into lan setting and putting in a proxy, but it didn't work. Our Computer Specialist is really cool and he teaches us a lot about computers and he told me that our school(s) in our city disable the changing of the proxy. But he said I could use one in there. He mentioned something about the web interface I need to ask him more, but does anyone know how i could do this? He said that there we are bunch of them. He wants to see if I can figure it out.

[EriCartman13]

I acually set up my own cgi proxy on my computer and am using it.

[TheOgre]

http://unixfun.net/howto/bsd/proxy.html

If you allow traffic out on TCP 443, here's one way of bypassing your proxy. I've been doing this for awhile now. Of course, it's just a matter of finding out which ports are blocked from the inside and finding one that's open in the event 443 is closed, but you get the idea.

I could also do ARP spoofing, IP spoofing, or a number of different things to get around it, depending on how you've implemented it.

['Stein]

Well I'm sure ya all kno how to bypass the Google Images filter and such without using a proxy.

1) Google.de

2) Now, go to advanced settings, and set the main language back to english

3) search pictures away :)

Then again, our WebSense filter's pretty lax anyways...

[EriCartman13]

I think that is pretty sad that schools block google images. They did at our school too. They blocked the homepage of wikipedia once! It is pretty sad, but I guess you have to block the retarded kids from looking at pron at school. The school also gets money from the government if they put filters in.

[nizzy1115]

They dont get money for filtering it, they are protecting their asses by doing it. If a parent decides to sue a school becasue their child looked at porn there, they would win. This is why filters are used. Its just to protect them from lawsuits.