How to Access Blocked Websites at Work or School

[Jorge]

If you're looking for a guaranteed way to visit blocked websites like YouTube, MySpace, etc. at school or at work then Psiphon may be just the program you need.
There's a wide range of ways to circumnavigate the censors on your network, be it the Torpark browser, proxy servers, or anonymizers, but none are as simple and virtually guaranteed to work as is Psiphon.
Developed in a basement lab at the University of Toronto, a team of political scientists, software engineers and computer-hacking activists, or “hactivists,” collaborated to created this powerful tool to allow Internet users to circumvent censorship of the Internet.
"Governments have militarized their censorship efforts to an incredible extent so we’re trying to reverse some of that and restore that promise that the Internet once had for unfettered access and communication," said Ronald Deibert, director of the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab where Psiphon was developed.

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[rainbowdemon]

I have a better idea. Go to work and actually work!! Surf the net on your own time!!

[RACKnRAIL]

I have a better idea. Go to work and actually work!! Surf the net on your own time!!

No shit. If I was caught doing something like that at my government job, I would risk getting fired. Can't people just wait until they get home?

[JosefStalin]

I agree that you should just get on with your work while on the job, but I've had a lot of brainless office jobs where there was a lot of down time and I dont think Im alone here. I finished the work and then...what? Quite honestly nothing left to do. So what am I going to do to pass the time? Stare at the ceiling?

So I'd use the internet. Mainly Wikipedia. And one place I worked at (property management company) must have gotten annoyed at this, so they started blocking the internet for me. First my email, then Wikipedia. Naturally, I got around all of these blocks (via cached versions, alternate domains, proxies, and so forth) and I found it hillarious that at no time (over the course of about a month) did anybody just come up to me and say "I think youre using the internet too much". They just did this passive agressive shit.

So eventually they shut the whole internet off for me. And on that very day, I quit and took all of my work with me. I had a list of everything I did and what needed doing. And without this list, they have no idea whats going on, so they'd have to do it all over from the beginning. It must have taken them a good six months to catch up. They begged me not to quit. But fuck them. I can find another shitty office job in no time. And sure enough, I did.

Treat your employees like shit and sabatoge is a very real possibility. Many people are sheep (particularly in England, where I reside), but there are others who live like human beings and dont put up with brainless shit. Fucking eight pound an hour job. Im a university graduate for fucks sake. I dont need that crap.

[N Fiddledog]

I read the first posts, and I get the rationale, but then I read Josef's post, and I kind of get that too.

I've been reading about the kind of stuff that happens in Britain, and Jesus, it's like 1984 over there. Taxed on everything to the point they're all the working poor, cameras everywhere, controls on everything. Jeez, I hear even if you fill your trash containers too high you get a monster fine, and a criminal record.

So Vive La Revolution. Go Josef. Rage against the machine.

[Drew Wilson]

When the government starts blocking various internet websites at the home level and block Tor in the process, software like this is going to come in VERY handy for a LOT of people. I just hope the Netherlands can handle the huge upsurge in web traffic is all in the future.

Then again, I think my cynical side is showing again.