in reply to OT?: Proxy Skills

OK, now I understand what you're dealing with. You have several options: 1) This is the easiest to implement, but not necessarily the best. It's a somewhat little known fact that you can use Akamai's cache / proxy installations to beat 80% of the filters out there. See here.

2) You could also set up your own proxy externally, and have it run on a port other than 80. Most filtering software only watches traffic going through standard web ports.

3) The last (and probably best) solution is to set up ssh port forwarding through an external machine. Then you set your browser to proxy through some port on localhost, and forward that through your firewall to some machine outside that you have a shell account on. This will slow your connection down, but it's untracable.

BlueLines

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