Help needed...Desperate person...

**edyzmedieval** · 09-10-2007, 19:39

Because of the past things that happened in the school, the WLAN of it now unfortunately has several layers of firewalls attached to it. This means you can't download absolutely ANYTHING.

Now, I need something to get past this. LEN recommended me something, but my access was denied and I got "Criminal skills ; Hacking".

Is it possible something? Or am I doomed forever?

Oh, just to warn you, I need something legal.

**Lemur** · 09-10-2007, 20:02

Hmm, there are certainly ways to bypass a pesky firewall, but before I go handing out Dangerous Knowledge, might I inquire what sorts of things you're planning to do? We aren't talking about anything unsavory, are we?

**Out** · 09-10-2007, 20:17

I'm sure that actually depends on your definition of "unsavory", Lemur. :P

**Lemur** · 09-10-2007, 20:37

Good point. Let me fill in with a personal example:

I worked for an organization that banned its employees from accessing their webmail. The reason given was that several idiots had downloaded spam attachments and introduced virii to the network.

The area I worked in was populated by pure geeks. We scoffed at the n00b users who clicked attachments from unknown senders. But we chafed at not being able to check our outside mail accounts for nine hours a day.

So obviously, we concocted a technique that allowed us all to access our webmail, and we never, ever downloaded anything. IT Security never caught on to what we were doing, so everybody was happy as a clam.

To me, this is a low- to no-damage bit of tomfoolery. None of us were engaging in illegal, unethical or dangerous behavior. We just wanted to read our ***** mail.

**TevashSzat** · 09-11-2007, 00:10

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

Because of the past things that happened in the school, the WLAN of it now unfortunately has several layers of firewalls attached to it. This means you can't download absolutely ANYTHING.

Now, I need something to get past this. LEN recommended me something, but my access was denied and I got "Criminal skills ; Hacking".

Is it possible something? Or am I doomed forever?

Oh, just to warn you, I need something legal.

First thing that comes to mind: proxy

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 09-11-2007, 00:18

Originally Posted by Xdeathfire

First thing that comes to mind: proxy

I'd like to echo that, proxies are nice.

Please don't do anything that would get you in serious trouble. I don't know if you get Internet access in Romanian prison, but I don't want you to go there anyways.

**edyzmedieval** · 09-11-2007, 14:27

I'm not talking about downloading porn, what the heck!!!

I just want to download useful stuff like GIMP, Blender..That kind of stuff, which I can use. Also, I WANT TO USE STEAM GOD DAMMIT!!!

Argh, the connection is this at the school:

-WLAN
-firewalled to hell
-proxied
-any sites with programs for IP hiding are classified as Criminal Skills and Hacking

What the heck...

**Lemur** · 09-11-2007, 16:18

Hi Edzy,

Using the most obvious solutions, Steam isn't gonna happen. Pretty sure it uses multiple ports, so it could be a bit of work getting it past the firewalls. Also, most games from Steam download hundreds of megabytes of data, if not gigabytes, so you would probably get in trouble for larding up a school PC with that much stuff. My advice: forgo Steam.

For web browsing and downloading apps such as GIMP and Blender, here's how you do it:

Google proxy surfing
Poke through the results, look for a proxy that is free
If the security at your school is decent, they're going to block many of the free proxies, so just keep poking until you find one they didn't plug
Once you've found the hole, download the apps you need
Be aware that active security teams will usually plug the holes within a month or so. Don't rely on a single proxy forever!