[olug] anonymizer

[Daniel Pfile]

Well, since you don't feel your job is in danger for doing this. Here  
are some freshmeat entries for you:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpwebproxy/ 
?topic_id=87%2C907%2C90%2C91%2C234
http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpproxy/?topic_id=907
http://freshmeat.net/projects/php-proxy/ 
?topic_id=907%2C90%2C250%2C914%2C867
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cgiproxy/ 
?topic_id=251%2C90%2C91%2C234%2C150

I've used cgiproxy before, mostly because I wanted to log into a  
non-ssl site from my work computer (not my current employer), and I  
knew certain admins liked to sniff the network for fun and profit.

If ssh is allowed, maybe you can set up an ssh tunnel to your home  
machine and config your browser to use a proxy sitting on that (like  
squid, or one of the ad blocker ones). I used to use ssh listening on  
port 443 to log in and check my mail, before I used web mail.

Just make sure you're not doing anything your employer _would_ frown  
upon. I don't see a problem with something like this for better  
security, quick accesses to home computers or personal sites that I  
don't want people looking in on, but I wouldn't browse porn or download  
warez or anything crazy like that.

-- Daniel

On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 03:22 PM, Jonathan Warren wrote:

> 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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