Browse All You Want At Work

choka writes "I came across a new Mozilla deriative known as Ghostzilla. It has the ability to open and hide the browser within most applications with simple mouse gestures, ensuring no one will discover what por^H^H^Hsites you visit in office ;) (i.e., if your sysadmins don't check the proxy logs...)"

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links

[Anonymous Coward]

Thats why I use links. Perfect for viewing websites that you shouldn't be, with the added bonus that if you run it remotely through an ssh connection, the sysadmins *CAN'T* look up your history in the proxie logs.

Re:links

[Jon Abbott]

if you run it remotely through an ssh connection, the sysadmins *CAN'T* look up your history in the proxie logs.

Ah, but that's where ngrep comes in! :^)

Re:links

[AKnightCowboy]

Wouldn't a better solution just be to log into your ADSL machine at home, and run mozilla over an X session?

Even better, use the -D option on newer versions of OpenSSH to do dynamic port forwarding. Then point Mozilla or Netscape's SOCKS4 proxy to the port you specify. For example: ssh -D 1080 remotehost.com -l blah Then just point mozilla to a socks4 port of 1080 on localhost. Everything you browse will then be proxied over your SSH connection and appear to come from your ADSL host to remote sites. Works pretty well in my experience without the hassle and overhead of setting up a squid proxy or running a full X application on a remote host.

I dunno...

[Hayzeus]

If they're serious, they're going to be checking logs. If they're REALLY serious, they'll check your machine periodically for unapproved software.

I've worked plenty of places where IS and IS only were allowed to install ANY software. Even though most of us were developers with years of experience, unauthorized installation of anything was potentially grounds for termination.

Slashdotted...Download size 9.27 MB

[jukal]

As the site is already suffering, the download size is over 9 MB and there is not much other information on the site than this...

Ghostzilla is a browser for surfing the Web when you don't want anyone to physically see what you are doing. It renders Web pages to look indistinguishable from your work screen. You make it disappear instantly with one move of your hand and bring it back with another. Ghostzilla can show Web pages discreetly within literally any application you work with.

and the screen shots.... I'd believe everyone would be better of if you waited atleast some 30 minutes before hitting that download button. Why?

** Here is an analysis of the Slashdot Effect.

Re:Devious

[Per Wigren]

I forget the game, but I remember one where you would hit the f9 key (the docs called it the 'Boss Key') and a spreadsheet and a graph would come up on screen.

It was the Leisure Suit Larry series. Maybe other Sierra-games also..

Mac users have it easy

[teamhasnoi]

In OS X you can hit CMD(Apple) H, which 'hides' most apps. Have a doc open in the back and you're all good. For added 'security', have another browser (IE) in the dock for when the boss wants you to look something up, or show you something.

Now I can read /. all damn day! NOOO000ooooo....

Re:Mac users have it easy

[RaboKrabekian]

In windows you can just hit the windows key-D and all of your applications will be minimized. There are actually a lof functions that you can peform with the windows key - it's not just to bring up the start menu.

More porn-related addons for Mozilla

[jesser]

Pornzilla Modifications - stealth profiles, image zoom, view (but don't download) all linked images, go to next/previous thumbnail gallery or image.

Leech - download all links from a page that have an extension in your list of extensions to download. The author didn't figure out how to send referrers with the requests, which is annoying because many porn sites require a correct referrer header, but there are several workarounds included with Leech.