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Many schools, companies and organizations these days use Internet
filtering software to block certain websites from access. However, for
every one of these blocking tools, there is a work around for savvy
users that want to see the content. It's not that difficult to bypass
MySpace filters and other similar filters meant to limit or prohibit
access to YouTube, MySpace and other sites.
(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.
These work around sites work by providing users with an innocent
website that is not blocked by the filtering software...it then gets
the website that you truly want to visit.
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 this filtering software is installed on your PC, you can easily get
to the site you want to access by booting a blocking-override software
from your CD-ROM drive. This would assume that you have the software on
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 there is no shortage of people wanting to
help others work around blocking software!
About the Author
To learn more
about anonymizers and other ways to bypass filtering software, pay a
visit to the Privacy Software Review Center at http://privacysoftware.biz .
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