[Ilugc] Breaking blocked access in my office
- From: goda.abishek@xxxxxxxxx (Abishek Goda)
- Date: Wed Jun 9 14:11:44 2010
I am trying to overcome the blocked access in my office somehow as I think
the security restrictions have gone too far to carry on my daily activities.
Here is the scenario. I cannot access any email sites, IM sites,
entertainment sites from my office. The setup as far as I understood is that
all traffic from the local systems are being tunneled through a proxy server.
I tried using various methods to access websites & IM sites like anonymous
proxy servers & few other ways. But what I found was that no matter what, I
don't seem to be able to access any of the mail/IM sites. Just then I tried
Firefox add-on sameplace [xmpp] which was little complicated to set up as it
had few dependencies & the only thing that works for me now in gtalk. All the
other Firefox addons like gtalksidebar, meebo, etc failed. Certainly, they
aren?t blocking talk.google.com since any addon trying to connect to gtalk
connects to talk.google.com.
Seriously, if it blocked the sys admins should have a reason to. The
reason is certainly not for us to work around it. If you think they
are insane in setting some restrictions, take it up with them. Looking
for ways to tunnel only makes your position more complicated.
Abishek Goda
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