How to get around work internet restrictions?

[Greencardman]

So I have a friend whose work blocks everything with the word "blog" in the title, along with Google maps. Any ideas for getting around this (i.e. reading a blog at work)?

[Stampyhead]

Your 'friend' should get an iPhone 3G and use that to get on the internet (in 3G mode). Your work can't restrict what comes over the cellular network.

[Duff-Man]

Duff-Man says....your "friend" ought to be careful about trying to bypass restrictions put in place by company policy. If they have those policies it is likely they also monitor them, and hence may have some discipline policies as well...oh yeah!

[Gray-Wolf]

Tell him to check the companies policy on internet use. Going to unapproved sites, bypassing security to get to those sites, can be grounds for immediate termination.

[PowerFullMac]

http://www.tragicshirt.com/ ;)

[Dagless]

http://www.tragicshirt.com/ ;)

Yea, if you can put up with the constant popup ads.

[scotthayes]

Your "friend" should accept the polices of their company. If they want to access the internet during their breaks then they can pay for it. I have one of these... tmobile mobile broadband (http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-broadband/data-plans/pay-monthly/mobile-broadband-laptop/plans/)

[PowerFullMac]

Yea, if you can put up with the constant popup ads.

Its either that or they charge you.

The reason they need all that advertising is because they make loads and loads of those sites because they are always getting blocked by schools/workplaces so they have to make new ones, and buying all those .com domains aint cheap.

[themadchemist]

Go home.

[toolbox]

Is he using a program called dansguardian?Because that has a whole file of banned phrases, websites everything. You cna try and find a proxy server to get around it, thespacesurf.com is one of them

[mrwizardno2]

or use a vpn tunnel. i have a vpn server set up at home that I forward my traffic to if I'm using weird networks that do crazy filtering. last month I was in a training course at a facility, and they filtered everything. I connected to vpn and forwarded all my traffic to my connection at home and got past everything they had blocked

[iJohnHenry]

Does your "friend" want to find out what remedial action is??

I'll tell him. It's the first step towards dismissal.

[Greencardman]

My friend has a lot of downtime, and can spend hours surfing the web. Just not all parts of it. So basically, there are times when they're doing nothing all day. Just not the nothing they want to do. This isn't a case of skimping on work, its the case of someone who was hired to sit at a desk and not given enough work. They're in college, apparently this in normal.

[JNB]

Here's a thought. Read a book.

[OscarTheGrouch]

Every website has 2 addresses. an alpha one (ie. forums.macrumors.com) and a numerical one (12.345.123 etc) Get the numerical- frequently they are overlooked by security softwares.

Or find a proxy server.

[Greencardman]

Every website has 2 addresses. an alpha one (ie. forums.macrumors.com) and a numerical one (12.345.123 etc) Get the numerical- frequently they are overlooked by security softwares.

Great idea. How can I find the numerical address quickly?

[JNB]

Great idea. How can I find the numerical address quickly?

ping macrumors.com
PING macrumors.com (74.86.132.180): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 74.86.132.180: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=43.397 ms
64 bytes from 74.86.132.180: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=45.005 ms
64 bytes from 74.86.132.180: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=47.285 ms

[Greencardman]

hmmm. That doesn't get me MacRumors. It gets me a message of "Great Success ! Apache is working on your cPanel® and WHM™ Server" :) I'll try it on the blogs though. Thanks for your help.