Ways around firewall at work?

[Starscream]

I cannot get on many websites here at school. They block most sites that contain anything w/ tobacco and alcohol on them. Is there a program I can get do get around this? Several of my students say they have a website they go to in order to get around this. They won't tell me, b/c they think that as a teacher I will inform the administration about their actions. It sucks that I can't check my C-bid account from school.

[Seanohue]

Yea, I had to deal with this when I was in high school. You need a proxy server. If proxy websites aren't blocked at school, I used this one: http://www.hidemyass.com/ If they are, you're going to have to do a remote connection to a computer at home.

[AD720]

^---- beat me to it. Great minds.

google "proxy server"

[dunng]

www.vtunnel.com would be the place to start... but be careful as you are on thin ice if caught...

[Starscream]

Originally Posted by Seanohue

Yea, I had to deal with this when I was in high school. You need a proxy server. If proxy websites aren't blocked at school, I used this one: http://www.hidemyass.com/ If they are, you're going to have to do a remote connection to a computer at home.

Blocked. All Proxy servers are blocked by the Public School System

Originally Posted by dunng

www.vtunnel.com would be the place to start... but be careful as you are on thin ice if caught...

Blocked by the School System Director of Technology.

Thanks guys. No luck though.

Anything else?

www.gotomypc.com

Then you are remoting into your home system.

less nefarious than a proxy server.

[replicant_argent]

You might have to ask yourself if it might be worth your job if someone gets a wild hair. The world is full of idiots, fools, and jackasses, and chances are good that one of them is in one of those IT positions and wouldn't give two shakes about you and try to enforce the rules with no compassion for you.

[dunng]

LogMeIn as well - https://secure.logmein.com/

[Starscream]

Originally Posted by SilverFox

www.gotomypc.com

Blocked

[Starscream]

Originally Posted by replicant_argent

You might have to ask yourself if it might be worth your job if someone gets a wild hair. The world is full of idiots, fools, and jackasses, and chances are good that one of them is in one of those IT positions and wouldn't give two shakes about you and try to enforce the rules with no compassion for you.

There is truth to this. I could just wait till later to check out Cbid...

[Seanohue]

Originally Posted by andysutherland

Blocked. All Proxy servers are blocked by the Public School System

Blocked by the School System Director of Technology.

Thanks guys. No luck though.

Anything else?

You'll need to set up a remote desktop connection if you have a computer at home. Since this is feature of Windows, most places don't think to block it.

Here's some info on that: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...p_03may16.mspx

Get an iPhone...

Get an Iphone...

like minds...

[dunng]

Get a BB!

[replicant_argent]

Originally Posted by Drat

Get an iPhone...

I think this may be the best advice here, if you want to check at work. Heck, most of us change phones fairly often, and the smart phones are getting pretty incredible, as well as the data plans will come down in cost I think fairly soon.

[Starscream]

Originally Posted by Drat

Get an iPhone...

Originally Posted by zonedar

Get an Iphone...

Just to check Cbid? I'll wait for a while before I get one.

...and to check mutliple e-mail account, surf the web (including CA), yelp for restaurants, listen to tunes and pod casts, facebook, play the harmonica, shazam songs that you can't remember the name of, post photos to various hosting sites, play craps, play hearts, etc..

I hear you can also make phone calls on the thing.

[Starscream]

[quote=zonedar;113670
I hear you can also make phone calls on the thing.[/QUOTE]



I'm gonna break down and get one someday, but not right now.

[Volt]

secure-tunnel is another site.... But as an IT type guy.... They track and block them as they are found out, and as others noted - what is the school EULA on visiting or trying to cirumvent the firewall?