Circumventing Firewalls

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rsvmilly

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11,288 posts

243 months

Monday 29th January 2007
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Any idea how to get around domains blocked by our company Watchguard? They have blocked ebay and will probably block more. Goodbye PH?????

iaint

10,040 posts

240 months

Monday 29th January 2007
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It'll be the proxy server not the firewall that's doing the blocking. The firewall will be preventing you circumventing the proxy (it'll only let http traffic out from the proxy for example).

If your admins know what they're doing then you're 99% stuffed and it's likely that any action you take to get round the system would constitute gross misconduct! If you work somewhere that has mildly sensitive data hacking a hole int he security systems (easier from the inside than outside) could potentially leave the system vulnerable to attack and data theft...

d1bble

3,277 posts

265 months

Monday 29th January 2007
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Now how did i do it? scratchchin

rsvmilly

Original Poster:

11,288 posts

243 months

Monday 29th January 2007
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Looks like I'll have to leave my PC on at home!

ProPlus

3,810 posts

242 months

Monday 29th January 2007
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rsvmilly said:
Any idea how to get around domains blocked by our company Watchguard? They have blocked ebay and will probably block more. Goodbye PH?????



There are a few ways round it but if you get discovered they will know what you have been doing and that you 'intentionally' went out of your way to get past the proxy.... Result - an instant escort out of the door and thanks but no thanks.

Not worth it really....

ProPlus

3,810 posts

242 months

Monday 29th January 2007
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d1bble said:
Now how did i do it? scratchchin



If you are serious...

www.hideu.net

Tho Im not looking at it....

Just type getting past proxy in google and all will be revealled... or you could google it and use cache link or the translate link as a form of free proxy, but you didn't hear that from me!!

d1bble

3,277 posts

265 months

Monday 29th January 2007
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ProPlus said:
d1bble said:
Now how did i do it? scratchchin



If you are serious...

www.hideu.net

Tho Im not looking at it....

Just type getting past proxy in google and all will be revealled... or you could google it and use cache link or the translate link as a form of free proxy, but you didn't hear that from me!!


Take Si's advice (not that he's told you) and don’t do what i did back in the 2001, connecting your mobile’s modem up to your computer and using its GPRS. It’s strange how quickly you can run up a 2k phone bill yikes

rsvmilly

Original Poster:

11,288 posts

243 months

Monday 29th January 2007
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Remote connection to my home PC then, I guess?

toni896

2,188 posts

228 months

Monday 29th January 2007
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rsvmilly said:
Remote connection to my home PC then, I guess?


has the advantage of, you can do what you like, look at what you like etc ..

meeja

8,289 posts

250 months

Monday 29th January 2007
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rsvmilly said:
Remote connection to my home PC then, I guess?


I would imagine that would be the easiest way.... technically you could then surf for whatever you want, and the watchguard logs will only show up a connection to your home PC's IP address.

zumbruk

7,848 posts

262 months

Monday 29th January 2007
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Hideu.net will be in all the filtering proxy lists as proxy avoidance, so you won't be able to connect to it anyway. It's certainly in Websense's list, dunno about Watchguard (IIRC).

You *can* tunnel through an http connection to your home PC and thence wherever you like. It almost certainly constitutes something forbidden by your contract of employment T&Cs.

You can find out while you're sitting in Personnel waiting to pick up your P45 and be escorted out of the building. Really, I wouldn't do this - most Corporates big enough to have this kind of infrastructure will simply sack you.

It is, after all, not your computer, network, bandwidth or time.



rebelstar

1,146 posts

246 months

Monday 29th January 2007
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I've got a really sneaky way that may or not work in all cases. Anyway... you'll like this.

Go to the Google language tools.
In "translate a web page", enter the URL you want to visit.
Choose a language with a non-Latin character set (Korean to English works well).
Click "Translate"

Enjoy surfing "google".

toni896

2,188 posts

228 months

Monday 29th January 2007
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rebelstar said:
I've got a really sneaky way that may or not work in all cases. Anyway... you'll like this.

Go to the Google language tools.
In "translate a web page", enter the URL you want to visit.
Choose a language with a non-Latin character set (Korean to English works well).
Click "Translate"

Enjoy surfing "google".


our cmapny block this

si_j

254 posts

234 months

Monday 29th January 2007
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We must have an ancient system at work, we just use a reg hack to open up IE (corp prefered browser) and untick the proxy server connection in the Options menu.
Failing that, download Firefox (frowned upon by said Coperate) and use that

zumbruk

7,848 posts

262 months

Monday 29th January 2007
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toni896 said:
rebelstar said:
I've got a really sneaky way that may or not work in all cases. Anyway... you'll like this.

Go to the Google language tools.
In "translate a web page", enter the URL you want to visit.
Choose a language with a non-Latin character set (Korean to English works well).
Click "Translate"

Enjoy surfing "google".


our cmapny block this


Yes, we do too.

zumbruk

7,848 posts

262 months

Monday 29th January 2007
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si_j said:
We must have an ancient system at work, we just use a reg hack to open up IE (corp prefered browser) and untick the proxy server connection in the Options menu.


Jesus, you have an unproxyed route out to the Internet. Your IT Security people need shooting.

iaint

10,040 posts

240 months

Tuesday 30th January 2007
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zumbruk said:
si_j said:
We must have an ancient system at work, we just use a reg hack to open up IE (corp prefered browser) and untick the proxy server connection in the Options menu.


Jesus, you have an unproxyed route out to the Internet. Your IT Security people need shooting.



No. They need educating. Then shooting!

JonRB

74,941 posts

274 months

Tuesday 30th January 2007
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I managed an SSL tunnel into my machine at home and thence onto a web cache proxy running on that machine and out onto the internet via my home ADSL connection. Unfortunately that got spotted and blocked after a while. Arse.


Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 30th January 15:30

pdV6

16,442 posts

263 months

Tuesday 30th January 2007
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iaint said:
It'll be the proxy server not the firewall that's doing the blocking.

Watchguard firewalls (as used by the OP's company) can also block specified websites if configured to do so.

tinman0

18,231 posts

242 months

Tuesday 30th January 2007
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rsvmilly said:
Any idea how to get around domains blocked by our company Watchguard? They have blocked ebay and will probably block more. Goodbye PH?????


reckon your best bet is to find out who the IT people are at the next Christmas Party and get them lots of drinks. introduce them to women. things like that. then ask if you can have access out to the unrestricted internet - that they certainly have.