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Proxy Sites Offer Secret Passage to Myspace
JafSquared writes "As sites like MySpace.com gain popularity in young adults, schools all over are finding that taking measures to keep kids blocked out of these websites is becoming increasingly difficult. As this hype continues, proxy servers such as "Box of Prox" are springing up like wildfire. While system admins furiously work to diminish the strain placed on their school's local networks from sites like MySpace, these proxy sites are enabling easy access to restricted areas. However, schools aren't the only places that are feeling the heat. Proxies have also been becoming a bit of a complication in the workplace. To the more advanced user, the proxy server can become a tool for malicious intent as this article, delivering an anecdote with the termination of an employee, so poignantly details."
So, pedophiles and paranoid types then.
Your reply (regarding the ghetto) has to be the single dumbest thing I have read in a month. congrats. you are sure to be a recipient of the Darwin award...
More advertising from Slashdot....
You get so much more traffic if you get your proxy site on the slashdot (and inevitable Digg and viceversa etc) rather than just rely on the countless "Proxy Top Sites!" type sites...
Did that link really need to be there slashdot? Dont you think that even if we didn't know what a proxy is (yeah right this is slashdot...) we could have found an example of a proxy site ourselves?
I'll be submitting the URL about my new porn site later, disguised as a discussion about how porn is troublesome at work and school networks.
A majority of the benefit of going to school is the social integration. If you think you've found a way around that, you're wrong. I'm sure there is a way around it, but you haven't found it.
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Be warned: Anonet isn't anonymous at all. I spent a few minutes poking around on the network, and was able to collect a few public IPs quite easily.
For the interested, the Anonymous Coward's IP address used to connect to the laughably anonymous "Anonet" is 69.115.226.166.
Anonet has serious issues which need to be worked out before one takes the parent's advice to trust their job to it. Anonet is nothing but shamanistic security, the computers still are connected to the public Internet and it is very easy to tie them to an Anonet IP.
For example, the user on Anonet at 1.255.4.24 is running a public PHPMyAdmin install ( http://user24.client.ano/phpmyadmin/ ). This is probably firewalled on the public Internet, but the VPN method used by Anonet opens your computer up to all sorts of nasty firewall transversals until you take the time to secure it with iptables or similar.
If you care about security or anonymity, steer clear from this network. Join some place with real security such as Freenet.
Oh no, certainly not for malicious activity. You, Mr. Coward, keep preaching how anonymous and secure your network is, but somehow also brag in the next sentence how it is not used for kiddy pr0n or "malicious activity". Having and eating cake.
I do not trust the designers of an "anonymous" network who feel the need to promote it at every opportunity with AC threads on Slashdot.
The answer to your problem is quite simple. Every morning, print out a report of the internal IP address that accessed the most content over 80 and 443. Figure out who the workstation belongs to. Go to his desk with his boss, security, and a HR goon. Tell him to get up and leave.
After about 3 days of this, someone getting fired every day for violation of our policy, web traffic absolutely died.
If you have a problem with shared computers, install a webcam. Set it up so that the webcam takes a snap every 5 minutes with a proper date/time stamp at the bottom. When you get your logs, open up the webcam shots and see who was on the PC.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.