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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...)"
Congrats! Now Mozilla will be on that hot list of stuff not able to download and use at the office!
GOOD THINKING!
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
where can I hide my Cheryl Tiegs poster?
This is one of the most devious things I've seen in a while! I love it!!. It reminds me of old shareware PC games, where you could hit the F9 key to escape to a DOS shell, so you wouln't get caught at work. Hugo's House of Horrors anyone?
Until some idiot accidently embeds the wrong figure within his PowerPoint presentation.
At the board meeting:
"As you can see in this full-page figure..."
"Well, something about that figure is certainly full..."
as I sit here at work on a Friday afternoon reading slashdot.
But what if your hands aren't on your mouse?
I don't have a sig...Do you??
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.
Wah!
if your sysadmins don't check the proxy logs
:)
There is a distinct difference in a sysadmin who checks the log and rats you out, and a sysadmin who checks the log and gives you a few tips on a really good asian schoolgirl site.
What platform does this run on... the screenshots show only Windows. Is there a Linux version? The download link doesn't allow you to specify the platform...
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.
Roving Web-Teleoperated Robot
Include a custom peripheral, like Steel Battalion does.
This peripheral would convert any office chair into an ejection seat, for those times when you absolutely positively cannot get out of admitting you were surfing the web, instead of working.
...
yet more proof that porn drives innovation....
what is the saying? "necessity is the mother of invention"
it should read
"horniness is the mother of all invention"
*crosses fingers* porn industry don't let me down...
daddy wants a holodeck
nbfn
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.
Wow, this is great! That's because the office is, of course, the best place in the world to oggle porn. Yeah.
So now instead of seeing the embarrassing sites you're visiting, your boss will only notice more frequent hand...er...mouse gestures.
It's all going according to
And at my work, like most other workplaces no doubt, they check the proxy logs anyways, so it wouldn't be much of a gain. It would be very easy to write a little script to go through and identify the "top" web surfers and to see who's surfing sites with pr0n-related terms, or anonymizing sites.
<hypocrite>Anyway, you should do your web surfing from home!</hypocrite>
"Luck is the residue of design" -- Branch Rickey
Since most of these work spyware programs search for IE specific history, you're still pretty "safe" using normal Mozilla.
Even the humans do this, seems to me like most of the tech support guys searching for 'inappropriate' material are looking in the IE history anyways.
Why is slashdotting a site so hilarious to you fools? Every time a story is posted there are a dozen idiots that get modded up to +5 funny just saying "oh gee, look, their site's down"
1) There's nothing fun about being the admin of that box
2) The fact that all these sheep are blindly clicking on the link is sad and pathetic
3) It's just not humorous.
Speaking further of mouse gestures, moving your pointer all the way left, then all the way right, then all the way left again is a poor choice of gesture. It takes way too long to be useful, esp. if you're using a trackpad. Perhaps a R-L-R-L mouse button combination, or even just a keystroke would be a better choice.
Cretin - a powerful and flexible CD reencoder
I've had this for awhile. I call it "Alt-Tab"
Now I can read /. all damn day! NOOO000ooooo....
Did you read anything from the site? It does a little more than add mouse gestures. It puts a black and white web browser window on top of any application (framed in current application) without any borders, buttons, etc. It's certainly not invisible but someone could easily walk by your desk and think you're not browsing the web. All the mouse gesture does is eliminate the browser portion of the screen allowing the original app to shine through. Since human vision is so tuned toward movement this method of hiding draws far less attention than your plain old mouse gesture.
One of the VP's here complains about getting too much porn spam at his work address. Not because he's opposed necessarily, just because it's all straight, and he's definitely NOT. I browsed his bookmarks accidentally when I was messing with Outlook for him. He's got quite the collection of favorites.
And apparently at the company staff only Xmas party a year before I started, he was tanked enough to scream "holy shit, she's got tits" about one of the interns that had only been around a few months.
I love my job. However, I think our HR manager hates hers.
"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs." P.J. O'Rourke
"Screen resolution in the pictures here is 800x600, but Ghostzilla works with literally any resolution and any size and position of any application window."
;)
C'mon, they can't be serious! A program that runs in any resolution? That would totally rock.
How about up-down-up-down-left-right-left-right-B-A?
Overrated / Underrated : Moderation
I run WindowMaker on Linux and I hot-key the switch workspace command to ALT-1 (next workspace) and ALT-2 (previous workspace). It's extremely efficient to simply leave terminal windows and applications maximized in their own workspace and just hop between the screens when you need to switch to a different app. It's like tabbed browsing, once you get used to it, it's hard to go back to the old way.
--It's Pimptastic!--
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.
The shareholder is always right.
Sure. Set up squid on your home box, and do
ssh -L 3128:localhost:3128
set localhost:3128 as your proxy address.
yeah, and i have a even more smarter browser. it encrypts all displayed images, so no one knows that the image on the screen is p0xxxrn.
Phil, just me
"Cattle Prods solve most of life's little problems."
Can someone take a look at what's inside that .EXE for me?
... let's see ... It starts with alot of
binary numbers, anyway. ... more binary numbers here. Binary, binary,
binary ... Ooops! The file ended there!
Sure, man!
Hmm
Ok
Yeah, binary all the way.
... instead of closing it? That aint that useful u know. I can envision many situations when it could make things much worse.
Back in the day when I blindly opened executable file attachments without thinking, (Hey I was a kid, I didn't know about viruses and network security. I thought MS-DOS was an original, fully functioning operating system!!) I used to get lots of those comical programs designed to embarass you while at your desk. You know, the ones that opened up a porn pic of a man playing with himself, that u just couldn't close. Well one such time I received the goatse.cx picture via this method. I went to kill the process. It died. Phew, lucky escape. Little did I realise, that it had spawned a child process. Suddenly I had loads of little windows with scaled down goatse.cx pictures. So I turned off the screen. To my (and the rest of the JAM PACKED computer lab's) horror, a mans voice singing. "GIMME SOME ANAL LOVING" blared over the speakers....
So basically no amount of hand waving will save your job, if your boss looks at a computer screen full of windows containing work relevant source code, while he hears the moans of a hentai anime school girl being pleasured by a giant robot.
Not that I have ever.. er.... seen such... errrr... material like that errr... ever. No really. I haven't.
I hate this forum. It makes me sig as a dog
Actually, ssh with the right switch can be a SOCKS proxy all by itself; no squid required.
'Course my /. threshold is high. Maybe someone already pointed that out.
Did you read anything from the site?
Hell no! If I had actually READ the article, there's no way I could've gotten that smartass comment in in time.
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
It is certainly a good thing that they used mouse gestures instead of an emacs interface: C-x C-g C-t C-c ....
Great, now thanks to Slashdot every boss knows of Ghostzilla's existence. Although what boss would have the nerve to suspect an employee of using Ghostzilla, and ask him or her to press CTRL-ALT-DEL in Windows to prove it. Is there also a "KILL" mouse gesture? I mean a way to kill Ghostzilla from memory so that there is no evidence? Thanks.
Years ago, I was running a firewall for my company(this was back when firewalls were "BRAND NEW" and "MYSTERIOUS".
Anyway, at the same time, my wife was working for a company for a real asshole boss.
Keep reading, this gets better.
Anyway, she ended up quitting a long-time job because she couldn't stand her asshole boss.
Well, after she left, that company pretty much went down the toilet and he was looking for a job. It turned out he got a job with my company.
I think you can see where this is going.
We only kept aggregate logs; the security guy and I had the unwritten rule on porn...once or twice was an accident, more than that was surfing for porn.
Well, one day, we noticed a lot of hits to some site that sounded "porn-ish" if you know what I mean.
I checked the site, and sure enough it was porn. Not only that, but it was men on boy gay sex. Hoo-boy.
We checked back on the IP address...you guessed it, her old boss was surfing gay kiddie porn at work.
Got his sorry ass fired within 8 hours. My wife to this day will forgive me almost anything when she remembers getting her old asshole boss fired for gay kiddie porn.
Seriously, this only happens in sitcoms, but this time it happened in real life.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Hey, I'm totally with you -- but not everyone works for an "enlightened" boss (or bosses above your direct boss!). At my last job, I read Slashdot daily. (On slower days, at least once a morning and again in the afternoon.) I really considered it relevant and work-related too. I mean, sure, I skipped anything that was just a movie review or talk of a new arcade game....
But I was always the first to have knowledge of new updates and fixes for new security risks, as well as good suggestions for the occasional software for a special niche need.
Unfortunately, I also took a lot of flack from the "higher-ups" for my appearance of "doing nothing constructive" when people from other departments walked by and saw me "web surfing". I had to justify my usage time and time again, and it seemed like each time only quieted them down for a few weeks at the most.
Eventually, I ended up losing that job. Can't really say it was over reading Slashdot, but I have the sneaky suspicion it didn't help matters any. Given a similar situation at a new job, would I do it all over again though? Yeah, absolutely. The net's biggest problem is a lack of quality sites that cull through the really interesting and relevant news, and put it in one place. Sure, you can go read ZD stuff and get the "party line" opinions on everything - but beyond that, there's Ars Technica, Slashdot, and a handful of respectable sites for hardware benchmarks and reviews. Other than that, though, what do you have? Would a company think it's a better use of time and money to buy those multi-hundred dollar a year "Dr. Dobbs Journal" subscriptions and have you read those??