Defending yourself against Nazi IT departments

wini · 2007-04-17T22:40:08+00:00

Here is the deal:You have decided to surprise your wife by purchasing sexy lingerie from your favorite site. The problem is that you are at work and your Nazi IT department has blocked your favorite site.The recipe(Defending yourself against Nazi IT departments)1. Install BarracudaDrive on your home computer.2. Make BarracudaDrive visible on the Internet by following the installation tutorial.3. Enable the tunnel server for your user ID.4. Go to work.5. Surf to your home computer using your default work browser.6. Navigate to the BarracudaDrive "settings page" and login.7. Start the HTTPS tunnel client by clicking the tunnel button on the "settings page".8. Start our preconfigured proxy version of the Firefox portable browser (*).9. Enter the URL to your favorite lingerie site.10. Enjoy. Total satisfaction guaranteed.

Apr 17, 2007 62 Replies

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Bogwitch 19 years ago

Interesting. Is that a publicly available list? It's not something

*I've* come across before....

"Transferring the risk" :)

Bogwitch.

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Moe Trin 19 years ago

We're using a privately compiled list, based on knowing the "local" providers and the IP ranges they're using. Originally, it started as firewall logs (who were our users connecting to), modified by whois lookups. As for identifying the ranges for the larger providers like Comcast, SBC, Road Runner. etc., I've seen lots of reports of DNSBL blocklists available.

A much more effective control. The systems are positioned so that shoulder surfing is difficult, but you really wouldn't want to visit your favorite pr0n site, as someone would likely detect this - I haven't seen to many banks using _that_ for a splash screen.

Old guy

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