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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!
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.
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
the screenshots show only Windows. Is there a Linux version?
Of course not, only Windows-lamers look at pr0n. Open source granola crunchers can get laid for real.
Trolling is a art,
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.
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.
(Score:-1, You Wish)
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
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.
How about in the trunk of your Delorian so you can send it back to 1985 where it belongs? :^)
... 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
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.