[olug] anonymizer

[Jonathan Warren]

I am close enough to the network monitors to know the mood on legal connections.  Currently ssh connections are ignored and they allow vnc clients among other things.  Anyway long story short I wouldn't do it if I felt my job was in danger.  
-Jon W

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 03:00:37PM -0600, Nick Walter wrote:
> 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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