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January 10, 2010
Helpful Hints from joeeze: How to access blocked sites
Courtesy of Mathew Honan writing in the January 2010 issue of Wired magazine comes the following tutorial.
TechnoDolts™ like moi will please move along, nothing to see here.
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Access Blocked Sites
If your employer nixes non-work-related sites like Gmail, YouTube, and Facebook [maybe even bookofjoe], you could try bypassing the blocks with a public proxy — but those are typically blacklisted, too. Here's how to forge your own detour: Download the PHProxy program from Sourceforge.net. Unzip the file and upload the entire folder's contents to a Web host that can run PHP scripts (GoDaddy and Dreamhost offer plans for less than $10 a month). Enter the host URL into your browser. When the proxy page pops up, type your actual destination into the blank address bar. You're now free — and free to poke away.
January 10, 2010 at 04:01 PM | Permalink
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Be careful using this!
Most companies have a form you sign when hired not to do anything even remotely like this....
and, most IT departments have an audit trail of every URL you visit.
It's really not worth it, wait till you get home or if you must surf buy a notebook and air-card.
Posted by: Joe Peach | Jan 10, 2010 4:24:29 PM
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