my schools got a thing called websense which blocks all the good websites (but not totse for some reason...) i am trying to do a project about the effects of marijuana on society over the past 2 decades and cannot access the websites i need to access.

it blocks proxies
it blocks translation pages

any ideas to get past websense?

I've started setting up several proxies for people at my school, and my school uses a pretty Nazi censor. You can't search Google for the words death, Nazi, drug, game(s), bypass, and you can't search for any type of drug or any word that could be remotely considered 'offensive'.

Apparently they don't want us to learn about death or the Nazis.

They've also blocked most Email websites, and are trying to force us to use www.gaggle.net, which is highly censored and allows any teacher at the school to read your email.


Here's one of them, it shouldn't be blocked:

www.kerberos.phpnet.us/upload (http://www.kerberos.phpnet.us/upload)

If you are doing a report for school, tell them to UNBLOCK the sites for you. If they don't do that, they are hindering your ability to complete an assignment, and should comply on some sort of terms for you.

Otherwise I call bullshit and you just want to go on the *chans and look at porn at school, and if that's the case. You fail.

This. And if they don't then you have a fairly half assed excuse for wanting to bypass the filter. As for reasons look into SSH tunneling or a VPN.

Yeah - it's called a "book" - these things are still around, you know. A public library catalog, even on computer, should lead you to some books with good information.

Try "Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market" by Eric Schlosser. Then check out the bibliography for further reading . . . good luck

Edit: (that's the same guy that wrote Fast Food Nation)

Who gives a shit what he wants to use it for? And deadhero, if it's good enough for a book, it's good enough for the internet. That level of censorship is plain ridiculous. If a school has internet, it should be useful for something.

Do what Expl0itz said first, and if they just sit on their asses, try making a proxy of your own.

Uh, put firefox/torbutton on a flash drive and call me in the morning.

setup a webserver and use CGIproxy

If they have web filtering content on. then the CGIproxy script might get flagged for some of the words on the site. So i just add to this

use https: to access your cgi proxy ;)

This trick only works if the site has SSL (Totse happens to have it)

use SSL, which is the https://www. instead of http://www.

This trick only works with some of the weak proxy out there.
Effective filters will block the ip.

This trick only works with some of the weak proxy out there.
Effective filters will block the ip.

Guess SonicWall my school used fails then :p Lucky me when i was in highschool.

websense is a jew, but if you can get to a computer lab admin account, you can turn it off. If they watch what you are looking at there should be a short cut somewhere around the desktop or start menu. From there is there is a big red button that says "turn censor off"

The most effective way to bypass web filters is to set up an SSH or VPN server at your house and forward the communication through that. Typically the firewalls are limited to a blacklist and will not automatically block any proxy connections.

So, how do we go about doing that?

http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+setup+ssh+tunnel+or+vpn+tunnel&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

So, how do we go about doing that?


Install gNewSense.
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
Set up port forwarding so the server is reachable from the world.
ssh -D 2786 user@host
Firefox>Edit>Preferences>Network>Proxy>SOCKSv5 localhost:2786
about:config>socks>remote DNS=true

Install gNewSense.
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
Set up port forwarding so the server is reachable from the world.
ssh -D 2786 user@host
Firefox>Edit>Preferences>Network>Proxy>SOCKSv5 localhost:2786
about:config>socks>remote DNS=true


Dude... what if he isn't using debian,. :D

Install gNewSense.


;)

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Dude... what if he isn't using debian,. :D

I dunno, yum install openssh-server?

Consult your distribution's documentation. On gentoo, it'd be emerge openssh.