[olug] anonymizer

[Nick Walter]

Might want to consider the risk factor before circumventing controls on
your net access at work.

When I used to sysadmin, I restricted net access to users on several
occasions.  Most of the time, it was because a manager had another
retarded idea about improving productivity or whatnot.  Those
restrictions I did not go out of my way to enforce. A few times the
restrictions were my own idea, when I was sick of people downloading the
virus-of-the-week-from-hotmail or whatever.  Those restrictions I did
enforce, cutting people off from various proxies as I discovered them.

Feel out the sysadmins before you start using a proxy to surf at work. 
If the restrictions are a management decree that the sysadmins privately
think is silly, then you can probably get away with a proxy.  If the
sysadmins really believe in the restrictions, then they can and probably
will discover your proxy connection and cut it off.  And possibly report
your naughty behavior to your supervisor.

Nick Walter

On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 14:45, Jonathan Warren wrote:
> I have worked at companies that have restricted internet access.  Sometimes this can be circumvented through the use of a https connection to a site that allows browsing of the web.  Safeweb comes to mind.  I have foudn that these kinds of sites don't last long before they are noticed and shutdown.  Now I am thinking to myself I have a nice little apache server running on the net and was wondering if anyone knew of an opensource project to turn an apache install into an anonymouse browser with login capability ( To keep it from being noticed by employeer)?  Seems to me an unbranded https page on my home machine that allowed me access to my own internet connection has little possiblity of being noticed and very little possibility of them determining its purpose.  Anyway just wondering if anyone had done somethign like this before?
> 
> -Jon Warren.
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