User: sarieah

workaround to my school uses that.

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I got this from a list Im on talks about setting up your own proxy to get around internet filtering

We have a new blocking software disabling program on the Peacefire site. This one not only works against home programs like Cyber Patrol and CYBERsitter, it also works against programs like Bess, SmartFilter, and WebSENSE. By following these instructions, you can turn your home computer into a miniature Web site, so that when one of your friends wants to get around the blocking software installed on some *other* computer, they simply visit the URL that points to the Web server on your machine. Once they are visiting your "site", they see a form where they can type the URL of the page they want to visit, and the contents of the page will be fetched for them. The concept of a "circumventor" like this has been around for a long time, but until now, setting one up has only been an option for people with lots of computer experience who really know what they're doing. What we've done is reduced it to three simple steps which can be completed in a few minutes. Here they are: http://www.peacefire.org/circumventor/simple-circu mventor-instructions.html These instructions are officially in the beta testing stage, so they may not work perfectly. (If you encounter any problems, the setup program creates a log file, which you can email to me so I can try and figure out what went wrong.) But prior to this announcement, several people have reported using the instructions with no problem, so if you follow the steps, you could soon have a circumventor up and running on your computer. This same technology can also be used to help defeat Internet censorship in places like China and the Middle East, so once it's out of the beta testing stage, we hope to spread the word as far as possible so that people living in those countries can ask their friends overseas to set up circumventors to help them get around the local censorship. (Ironically, the greatest publicity that the circumventor instructions will get, will probably be from pro-censorship advocates thundering against "these damn kids" hacking around their blocking software -- but if it helps raise people's awareness of an effective way to combat international censorship, so much the better.) Anyway, try it out and let us know how it goes. We're always collecting more examples of blocked sites, so if the tool helps you access a site that you needed in order to do research, or simply helps to access a site that was apparently blocked out of sheer stupidity, you can send us an email about that, too. (With your permission, we could also post it on the Peacefire site, although we will of course remove your name if you want.)