| Author | Message | ||
     Slowride |
I am working at a company that uses Surfcontrol. Is there any way to get around their filtering through a static or proxy. I have hit all the usual suspects and only get the http://403 error. Anyone got a work around. | ||
| Josh_ |
VPN connection to home? remote-control of a home PC? (VNC etc) Google or a different site's "translation" english-to-english for a simple proxy? TOR or one of the pay proxies? | ||
| Reepicheep |
You probably can, and they can definitely detect it when you do... so I don't know that I would recommend it. Probably cheaper to get an IPhone or a SideKick (do they even make those anymore?) or even a laptop and a cellular card then to risk your job over it... | ||
| Cityxslicker |
the new Nv from LG will do the web, and with keypad you can QWERTY till the cows come home, but it is very tiny text. and BadWeb loads slow over that network, but hey if you need your fix, you need a fix | ||
| Glitch |
What Reep said. | ||
| Mikej |
I know of one semi-manager at a previous company I worked at who would connect his desk phone to his laptop and use dialup, until the VP found out and basically said to either unplug it or get unpluged from his job. Safest public way is with a wireless data cellular connection as noted above, but they might technically have a rule against that as well. The place I'm currently at recently decided to block all yahoo and hotmail email and web links thru them, which hurt the sales people and the people who travel a lot for the company. Company basically said tough, link to the official company email via a VPN or do without. I basically just check email from home or at the second job. | ||
| Coal400 |
I will not educate you on how to transverse your company's policy... you can look up "port forwarding" your self. If you do this where I work, and get caught, its immediate termination. Know the consequences before you break the rules ;) | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
Slowride, this is an easy fix. Be like Kevin Mitnick and circumvent the people, not the machine. Now I am not saying this is fool proof, so don't blame me if this fails. You need to become chummy with your sys admin. Cookies, "sauce," or other desirables help. I have yet to see a workplace with web filters that the sys admin group has not circumvented for themselves. Remember they set up the system, they control it. If you bring something to their group they might add you to their list. I have done this at every place i have been. Before I starting working for myself, I had admin access to every corp network I was on. Hell one place I worked I found out the help desk group was running a blade server with ~80gb of music files. They even had a Bittorrent server running. The management never had a clue, and every time an out side auditor was brought in, this stuff was concealed. Corporate America lives and dies by the IT staff. Don't piss them off... As for software solutions, look into using Hamachi to remote desktop back to home. | ||
| Slowride |
Thanks all who responded in any fashion. I will educate and bribe where needed. oh yeah, and accept any consequences that may come my way. | ||
| Dgp |
If you talk to the local IT guys or get in good with the local network guys, they might be willing to slip you a proxy that has access to more stuff  Thats how im browsing this site... |
