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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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  1. Great! by FortKnox · · Score: 5, Funny

    Congrats! Now Mozilla will be on that hot list of stuff not able to download and use at the office!

    GOOD THINKING!

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    1. Re:Great! by Xaoswolf · · Score: 5, Funny
      It's too late, the slashdot effect has excorcized this ghost.

      All we need now is a short woman to say, "This network is clean."

  2. Devious by trevinofunk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?

    1. Re:Devious by Per+Wigren · · Score: 5, Informative

      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..

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    2. Re:Devious by Punk+Walrus · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Click and Clack, the old Tappit brothers who host Car Talk on NPR was one of the first truly interactive web sites out there for a PBS show. Ever since the beginning, they have had a "Boss" button to click so it would load your browser with something official and work-looking. Of course, any detailed look at these "work-looking" documents shows a bit of humor, like ratio of donuts eaten per producer per show, graphs showing increase in mailbombs sent to the office, and the precent of NPR listeners who wish they'd never heard of their show.

      I always thought Slashdot should have a boss button.

      [ Boss Button]

    3. Re:Devious by fishbowl · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I always wondered what would be more suspicious,
      a game like rogue, or a dos prompt?

      There was one such game that had a boss mode which looked exactly like lotus 1-2-3 r2.2

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    4. Re:Devious by Arcturax · · Score: 5, Funny

      All well and good so long as you are a beancounter. But it looks rather suspicious if you are a coder. After all no coder worth his salt could stay awake in front of a sheet of financials.

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  3. This will work great... by LordHunter317 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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..."

  4. Damn, I need that one. by Railroader · · Score: 5, Funny

    as I sit here at work on a Friday afternoon reading slashdot.

    1. Re:Damn, I need that one. by vsprintf · · Score: 5, Funny

      as I sit here at work on a Friday afternoon reading slashdot.

      You say that like it's a bad thing. Remember, this is "News for Nerds". You're just staying abreast of the latest technological happenings. Hmm . . . probably shouldn't use abreast in a post here . . . You're just trying get on top of things . . . oh, screw it.

  5. Uhh... by Vaulter · · Score: 5, Funny


    But what if your hands aren't on your mouse?

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    1. Re:Uhh... by Kenja · · Score: 5, Funny

      Then odds are that no hand gesture in the world is going to save your job.

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    2. Re:Uhh... by Xaoswolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't know, it just depends on who your boss is, and whether or not he/she has any positions that needed filled...

    3. Re:Uhh... by akiy · · Score: 5, Funny
      Then odds are that no hand gesture in the world is going to save your job.

      You're obviously not a Jedi.

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    4. Re:Uhh... by Kenja · · Score: 5, Funny

      I dont think even Obi' could pull off "this is not the pantsless geek you're looking for"

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    5. Re:Uhh... by Da+Masta · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well the idea is to keep one hand on the mouse and the other on your, um, joystick.

      Of course, the problem comes when you remember to use one gesture, and forget to stop using the other one.

      To say the least, it'll be tough explaining to your boss why you're masturbating to an Excel chart. ;-)

  6. links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:links by Jon+Abbott · · Score: 5, Informative
      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! :^)
    2. Re:links by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 5, Informative
      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.

  7. The Difference by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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. :)

    1. Re:The Difference by Cervantes · · Score: 5, Funny
      As a former and future sysadmin, I take offence at that!

      Everyone knows that good sysadmins check the proxy logs to find the really good asian schoolgirl sites!

      (along with passwords. Thanks, Microsoft Autocomplete!)

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  8. I dunno... by Hayzeus · · Score: 5, Informative
    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.

    1. Re:I dunno... by truesaer · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

      I hate that crap. My last job was like that, and productivity was very poor. You have to move fast, and delaying for a week to get IS to approve and install some kind of utility or program you need is rediculous. Those companies deserve what they get, which is probably bankruptcy.

  9. Re:What platform? by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    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. :)

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  10. porn does it again.... by nebenfun · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  11. Slashdotted...Download size 9.27 MB by jukal · · Score: 5, Informative
    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?

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  12. Oh baby. . . by polyphemus-blinder · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  13. Then again... by dze · · Score: 5, Insightful
    If you somehow get *caught* using this, you're gonna be in huge trouble cause it's obvious that you've gone to some length to conceal your activity. I'd think that looks worse than being "caught" visiting cnn or slashdot every so often.

    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>

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  14. Mac users have it easy by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Informative
    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....

    1. Re:Mac users have it easy by RaboKrabekian · · Score: 5, Informative

      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.

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  15. Re:Off topic but I don't care by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Baaaahhh, Baahhhh, *ClickClickClick* Baaahhh, Baahhhhhhh, *Click*ClickClickClick*ClickClick*

  16. Re:Hmm... by cornice · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  17. Re:What platform? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    (Score:-1, You Wish)

  18. Re:Simple mouse Gesture by mhesseltine · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about up-down-up-down-left-right-left-right-B-A?

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  19. Linux efficiency by TheFlu · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  20. More porn-related addons for Mozilla by jesser · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  21. Re:Great, but by dousette · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about in the trunk of your Delorian so you can send it back to 1985 where it belongs? :^)

  22. So the mouse gesture just hides the browser window by Chef_TM · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... 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

  23. Re:Off topic but I don't care by vsprintf · · Score: 5, Funny

    2) The fact that all these sheep are blindly clicking on the link is sad and pathetic

    Finally! An advocate for the slashdot ethic: Do not read the linked articles, especially if you intend to post a comment. It might change your assumptions or something. :)

  24. Re:Hmm... by Flakeloaf · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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