On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 00:44 +0000, emmd_0 wrote: > My work computer access has something called > "Websense" that blocks all sites that have > "games" in them (at least that is the message that > I get.
It blocks all the sites that Web-senseless determines might be game related. Your company's web proxy checks with Web-senseless' server to see if the domain or URL you are trying to access is allowed. Web-senseless' database is filled with whatever they think is "inappropriate". They run web spiders and then review sites through lots of criteria to assign them to categories. Your company then just tells them what categories are allowed or not. Only web-senseless knows how or why a site is classified like it is, and the sites have no way to get their classification changed or find out what the "criteria" are that gets them put into a given category or not. That's why many games sites don't appear yet: they haven't been categorized. > Yet, I can access Boulder Games, BGG, Consimworld > and many others that have to do with 'games.' Which is why I can't believe companies still use their service. It's never worked right. They aim to be Internet Cops, but they have as much chance of that as a tissue in a hurricane due to the rapid churn of the web itself. But that doesn't matter... they still charge a LOT and many companies pay it for the false sense of security it gives them. And making that money is all that REALLY matters to them, not whether the service works or not, or who gets trampled along the way. > It will not allow me to go to the Vassal site > and even when I take in the .jnlp file, it won't > allow me to run Vassal (Java starts up fine). Download the standalone to a USB drive? > Is there a means to get around this, so that I > can view my active games when I have dead time > in the middle of the night at work? Lot's of ways around Web-senseless). But, because lawyers rule the world: These instructions provided for educational purpose only. Actually *acting* on these instructions is a personal choice you make, and only you will suffer the consequences. I will not responsible if you try this, get caught, and get fired. Services like Websenseless are installed by a company to implement and enforce their policies, and willfully choosing to violate those policies can lead to undesirable consequences. Do this at your own risk. First, if they watch web destinations with websenseless, you might as well also assume they are logging everything. Cover all of your tracks. I would install a privacy proxy like Privoxy: http://www.privoxy.org/ I would also install an anonymizing proxy like TOR: http://tor.eff.org/ The idea is that your IE will connect to TOR running on your computer, TOR will wrap up and encrypt the request and route it through a network of proxies over good old port 80. Unless web-senseless blocks TOR entry nodes (they didn't last time I did this) then you will sneak past web-senseless through the TOR network, to an exit node somewhere else in the world which will do the job of fetching the web page for you. The exit node then routes the returning page back through the TOR net to you. There is a lot to know about anonymous surfing such as block all cookies, don't do logins over TOR, stop history, caching pages, run from encrypted drives, etc... so, take the time to read the TOR site and understand how it works and what you need to do with your browser and network setups to make it work well. Or you could see if WorkFriendly is blocked: http://www.workfriendly.net/default.aspx :) -- Exile In Paradise You don't have to be crazy to be a member of the project, but you will be.. <=:] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vassalengine/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vassalengine/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
