On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> 2008/6/30  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > All you need is a friend in the uk who doesn't mind you setting up a
> squid
> > server on their linux box. Then vpn to their box and point your browser
> to
> > their squid server which will drag down the programs.
>
> Why do you need a VPN? Can't you just use FoxyProxy, for instance, to
> tell your browser to pull BBC only (or even just the blocked URL's on
> BBC's web site) through the proxy, but everything else to be accessed
> directly?
>
> That's similar to what I did at work - I setup a protected proxy on
> our DMZ for other purposes but use it also to browse from our faster
> link. FoxyProxy allows me to avoid using the proxy when accessing
> internal web sites which the DMZ proxy isn't going to work with.
>
> So what's the advantage of a VPN over that?


You have a corp proxy in your DMZ, which allows connections from teh
interwebs, and blindly allows people to leech through your corporate
connection?


>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Amos
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