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How to Bypass Internet Filters to View Blocked Websites at School or at Work

By Chad Kiser

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Published: 01Apr2008
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For every Internet filter or blocking tool, there's always a way to get around it. Much as parents and schools and employers would like to keep folks from viewing sites like MySpace, YouTube and other sites, anyone with even a minimal amount of knowledge can bypass the basic Internet filters normally used to click access to websites.

(Indeed, even in countries where Internet access is severely restricted, there is always a way around the blockages...unless the country completely shuts down Internet access...but this requires far more skills than the casual user possesses.)

If your network is filtering or blocking the site you want to access (and there have been a number of sites over the years that have been blocked inappropriately), the first thing to try is to use what is called a circumvention site, such as StupidCensorship.com. Sites like this use anonymous proxy servers to circumvent web filters and firewalls.

The way circumvention sites work is to provide users with an "innocent" site that is not blocked by your network...that then retrieves the sites you REALLY want to access.

Now, you might have to log on at home (assuming you are not blocked there) and then take the URL to work or school get around the blocking software used on your network. After all, blocking software knows that people will try to bypass it, so does what it can to keep you from searching for those bypasses.

If the Internet filtering software is on your computer, rather than on a network, and you are not able to get to a proxy server, it's easy to boot from a blocking-override software CD and override the blocking software. Of course, that assumes you have a blocking-override software CD. If you can install software on your computer, then Tor is the software of choice.

However if the computer is a public PC (such as at your school or library) with the blocking software installed, you may very well not be able to boot from a blocking-override software CD or install Tor because public computers are often 'locked down'.

The best choice, then, is to bring a list of anonymizer URLs with you and hope that at least the Internet filtering software does not block one of them. Finding a list of anonymizer URLs is simply a matter of googling to find forums where the posters want to share the information you are looking for...and lots of folks are interested in helping people bypass Internet filters!

For more information on how to bypass internet filter software and how to surf the Internet anonymously, visit the Privacy Software Review Center today at http://privacysoftware.biz.

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