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Have you tried using proxify to get in? I find that often works to give me a US IP address...

Shame on them ISPs. Makes me wanna signup to proxify, so that I can opt out of the ridiculous eavesdropping that's taking place. incase consumers don't know, here are some tools to protect yourself:

Scroogle with HTTPS, -> i use this as my primary interface for searching on google, since your search queries reveal alot of personal information and gets used for marketing purposes. :(

Tor Anonymity Network, with Firefox plugin to quickly enable/disable anonymous browsing.

Proxify with HTTPS, although for advanced stuff they want you to signup to their service :(

Last but not least: GnuPG, for encrypting your private data.

Let's look at Google's privacy policy, shall we?

Information sharing

Google only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Google in the following limited circumstances:
* We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
* We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
* We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Google, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.


That's a pretty broad policy. *ANY* applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforeable governmental request. That leaves the door pretty wide open for the Chinese government to start asking for the query strings of their citizens to me.

I think the answer is clear, if you need to see webpages and want NO trace of you - you have to compromise a machine, surf via a proxy you set up in it, and then timebomb the drive to wipe itself after you are done. And even then you may get caught, if there are firewall logs.

Let's look at a leading company that does web proxy policy:

DISCLOSURE
All use of our site is confidential. We disclose user information only as provided for herein and when we believe that the law requires it, or when disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to others or interfering with Proxify's rights or property.

In the event of an assignment, sale, joint venture, or other transfer or disposition of some or all of the assets of Proxify, you agree that we can accordingly assign, sell, license or transfer any information that our users have provided to us. Please note, however, that the purchasing party cannot use the personal information you have submitted to us under this Privacy Policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with this Privacy Policy without your prior consent.


That pretty much says: hey, we have your web surfing logs and we'll give em up if we have to. We don't want to, and we'll destroy logs after 30 days (it says that elsewhere in the policy) but dammit, if they bend us over and lube us up - we're gonna damn well hand it over rather than taking one for the team, so to speak.

My employer has that site blacklisted. :)

Try https://proxify.com/. I use it for all the sites my work's firewall blocks. :-) However, getting through during peak times is a pain.

For the next 4 minutes, Proxify is allowing access only to paid subscribers. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please either login to your account or subscribe for immediate access.

Proxify is THE most cock sucking useless POS proxy there is. I don't even know why they bother.

CGI Proxies are good for hiding your identity from the host site but hide NOTHING for someone spying and monitoring the network:

https://proxify.com/p/111110A0000110/http://www.go ogle.com/search?hl=en&lr=&biw=&q=Free+Tibet&btnG=S earch

Even so called 'encoded cgi proxies' , heck even most SSL ones you pay for tend to stick queries on the end of the encoded URL in clear text:

https://someproxy.com/p/111110A0000110/030JF904JG4 GJRJ9JG9JFG9J9J4?hl=en&lr=&biw=&q=Free+Tibet&btnG= Search

Now some don't do this, it depends on how they are set up but no good proxy should be sending the URL so it is visible in the browser location bar at all.

with Proxify (https://proxify.com/) or other proxies (http://proxy.org/).

Anonymouse surfing: http://www.anonymization.net/ http://www.anonymizer.com/ http://osiris.978.org/~brianr/ians/ http://www.guardster.com/ http://www.antiproxy.com/ http://www.attackcensorship.com/ http://proxify.com/ http://www.anonymous.as/ http://www.mezzy.com/s-index.php http://anonymouse.ws/anonwww.html http://unipeak.com/ http://www.urlencoded.com/ http://www.behidden.com/ Full system proxy systems: http://tor.eff.org/ http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ http://internet.flashback.se/ http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html http://www.privoxy.org/ http://www.silentsurf.com/ http://www.peacefire.org/circumventor/simple-circu mventor-instructions.html Ordinary proxies: http://www.atomintersoft.com/products/firewall/cou ntry.aspx/Sweden-se http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html http://www.publicproxyservers.com/page1.html http://www.proxz.com/ http://www.digitalcybersoft.com/ProxyList/ http://www.freeproxy.ru/ http://www.samair.ru/proxy/ http://www.multiproxy.org/anon_proxy.htm http://www.rrdb.org/ http://www.free-proxy-servers.com/ http://www.proxylists.net/ http://www.proxywhois.com/anonymous-proxy-list.htm http://www.openproxies.com/ Plenty, as said.

http://proxify.com/ is pretty decent, but they often restrict free access during peak usage times.

What does the ToS say about IP logging and the use/dissemination of those logs? I, for one, will only visit these sites through a proxy service such as Proxify

There's always other ways [proxify.com] to view the page.

Well I'm in Holland but using the following links, I can still visit it. Not that I want to, but anyway.
http://65.172.163.222/
http://proxify.com/p/011110A0000110/http/www.georg ewbush.com

For those of us with non-US IPs, and who still have some hankering to actually visit the site, then Proxify will let you view. Be warned though, it shows NSFW text ads as well.

Superglue + Ethernet port = No shit happens

But to be completely honest, I am a student myself, and I get completely pissed off by all the security measures at my school. Sure, it stopped/made it harder to do things such as what your trying to stop, but ultimately if you try hard enough, anythings possible. Ever heard of Mandrake Move?

At my school they disabled right clicking. It seriously impares one of my classes (digital design), which slows down the class because the teacher has to explain how to copy and paste without right click (yeah, we have got some retards in my class).

Anyway, ultimately, its your problem. You can try whatever you want, but there are so many proxies and there are many other ways to get around it anyway. One day, your students will find a way around it.

Good luck anyway, and I hope you decide to just more closely watch your students.

The only fool proof way to stop the internet is to disconnect....

I think it's version 7.1. If you upgrade try to play a ".wma" file that you ripped, it sends you a page that says "your registry has not been updated with the signature of your copied cd". Something like that. They record your IP address and information about the copied file at that time... regardless fo whether you say "OK". Freaked me out.

What's all the DRM crap really for? It's not to catch real hackers, who will strip off DRM info and watermarks like wrapping paper at Christmas.

No, the point is to scare average people into paying for more CD's. Good little hackers use anonymizers while surfing. They download as muich as they wany - and, partially due to lack of unicast filtering standards, are free to wreak havoc online anonymously and safely with their botnets.

Controlling access to the free distribution of information is probably stup in the long run anyway. Simply slow down the memetic and, eventually, genetic evolution of our species.