I doubt anyone cares, but...

[Eteocles]

So, I was sittin at work last Friday morning...perusing the forums, literally in the middle of typing up a reply to a thread. I hit submit.

"BLOCKED BY WEBSENSE. Category: Forums/BBS"

I has been filtrowned by my work firewall...no more trolling at work and I've already been going fucking nuts at work the past couple days, stooping so low as to *shudder* read news sites like ABC...I need alternative forum/reading material suggestions! :P

[Dryath]

Use google translator as a proxy.
http://google.com/translate_t

Enter the URL and translate from english to english.

Give it a razz.

Also lots of anonymous Proxies u can use via your browser.
i lost boxofprox after some christmas hijinks.

But all worht a look.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Heh, most companies specifically block that URL or can actively decode the target URL for matching against the real block list. :P Ours can.

[Diamndzngunz]

Ill find out tomorrow what the site is to load websites threw.

[Eteocles]

I'm fairly sure that's what mine does Don...so if google's translator has the url(Which the "Cached version" of pages does...I tried that already :P) it gets caught and blocked =\

[rooh010]

websense blocks most web based proxys.. :/

[Stabface]

Websense won't block http over an SSH tunnel, assuming you have a box outside the network you can SSH to.

[Sajuuk]

An interesting little thing I came across at my school dealing with websense is that depending on the site and how they blocked it you can just connect using the IP of the website. (example, I could go onto one of my email accounts until they blocked the domain name, then could connect with the IP. Then they got wise to me. :( )

This method is not guaranteed to work, it's just something I found in school.

[Heenan]

I set the WebSense screen as my background so my boss always thinks that I am up to no good (gotta keep 'em on their toes!)

[Eteocles]

rofl Heen..and yeah I tried the google translator; I think they blocked both the site name and the word "forums" in the url as it killed off the forums parts of other sites I tried, though their main pages worked. The IP is a good idea if I can browse the whole thing that way without it resolving itself to a DNS name, though if the forums bit is true I'd still get blocked probably.

[Knoxious]

I've just broke down and got an iPhone so I could surf no matter the internet connections around (work brings me everywhere). Dilemma I'm having now is that I forget to write down all the useful ideas I get from reading the forums, lol :wacko:

[Eteocles]

Yeah I considered getting that awhile back too when I found out my Nintendo DS's wifi wouldn't work at work..lol; but I wouldn't use it for anything else probably and last thing I need is another bill

[sikerdebaard]

Try an SSH tunneling (cheap shell provider?) or some other tunneling tool like Your-Freedom combined with SocksCap. Hell, you could even play WoW with both solutions...

[zanthor]

I can tell you that Websense is a pretty robust product, and if they don't want you using it enough to spend the $$$ on websense, they'll likely just fire you if you start actively bypassing it using some form of tunnel/vpn/proxy/etc...

[Eteocles]

Yeah that's what I figured lol

[Diamndzngunz]

http://pagewash.com/

There you go

[Klamor]

How about the PSP? It has a built-in web browser.... fairly easy to make posts with too...

just don't drop it on the ground, EVER, or else the crappily-built wireless chip will brake and you will have to get it fixed or buy a new one :(

[Djarid]

fortunately our websense isn't blocking this site or I too would be screwed (temporarily)

if they ever do shaft me that way I will write a web proxy to remotely load the pages onto my own webserver and display them there... unfortunately for you ete, my newborn is taking up too much of my time for me to put the effort in while I am not affected. sorry

[Codam]

I don't know about websense, but I recently set up an open source system which does the same thing at work based on http://pfsense.com/

One thing worth mentioning is that any sort of packet filtering makes it very easy to gather data about who got blocked, how many times and when. Just a tip for people suggesting webproxies and so forth.

The system I set up had no problems whatsoever blocking 99% of the webproxies I could find by googling, and a couple of guys got told to give it a rest after they clocked up a hundred or so attempts to access facebook through various of them :P

This may make me sound like the enemy, but if you knew how boring my usual grind is then you'd understand why this was a bit more fun. I wasn't so mean that I blocked forums though. Just porn, web communities, instant messaging, web-proxies and youtube.

[Eteocles]

Djarid if you ever do so please for the love of god let me know, preferably via PM or IRC so I don't miss the post ;p I'm friggin dying of boredom at work now lol

[Djarid]

I will see what I can do when I get some spare time and need to polish my perl skills ;)

[Zzyzxx71]

OK here's my secret.

I have my own private Windows 2k3 server offsite - I RDP to my server and browse to my hearts content. :)

I've only run into one instance where outgoing RDP content was blocked.

[Anozireth]

OK here's my secret.

I have my own private Windows 2k3 server offsite - I RDP to my server and browse to my hearts content. :)

I've only run into one instance where outgoing RDP content was blocked.Remote desktop = Win. That was one of my reasons for upgrading to Vista. :D (yes I know you can do it with XP, but I only had XP home)