RE: [MLUG] Getting SSH around despotic firewalls

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I'd say the best way to get rid of it is to hack the server and remove
it. If it's a physical device then find out what nasties fuck with that
device and put them on an endless loop. If you can find physical access to
the device take a pocket power supply in there and hit it at way more
juice than it expects to take. Or open it, pull the insides out, put a
clean line-through inside and leave it in place so everything looks
normal.

*shrugs* These things never seem to work. Censorship is stupid and anyone
with a brain eventually finds the holes. Yet another example of our tax
dollars at work saving us from ourselves.

If all else fails set the building housing the filter on fire. I think
arson is acceptable when it comes to defending the Constitutional rights.


I don't suffer from insanity... I enjoy every minute of it.

;):):-):):-):):-)8')
Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://mlug.missouri.edu/~mogmios/projects/

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, F Vernon Green wrote:

> I work at the Santa Paula School District here in California. The blocking
> is a result of the Federal Children Internet Protection Act. It basically
> says that all internet traffic, both web and e-mail has to be filtered for
> content. You are not going to get the school board to change their stand on
> it, since it was not their policy to implement it, they have to implement it
> in order to qualify for Federal funding.
> 
> Incidently we had to do it here too, what we ended up doing was using an
> IPrism that runs on FreeBSD. A company that sells the filters and the
> service to keep up with all the web content are the ones that actually do
> the blocking. The administrator can also open up whatever sites they want.
> Iprism will re-evaluate sites according to their content, I found it
> interesting that EVERY online dictionary is blocked.
> 
> E-mail is filtered too. We do not offer e-mail to students at our district,
> but any school that does has to by law filter all e-mail according to words
> in the heading and body of the e-mail.
> 
> Bottom line is that unless you have some stupid administrators at your
> district that are going to allow you to bypass all their protections,
> anything you want to do at school is going to be filtered and or read by
> someone else.
> 
> F Vernon Green
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Igor Izyumin Jr.
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 6:44 PM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] Getting SSH around despotic firewalls
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 13 February 2002 20:13, Ian Monroe wrote:
> > At Rock Bridge HS, the new filtering program/firewall started bannning all
> > ports except 80. This is a problem, as it is handy being able to SSH into
> > mlug.missouri.edu to check my mail.
> Yep, this is now district-wide.  Those bastards even blocked our web
> server -
> kewp.columbia.k12.mo.us - so the Hickman website is now offline.  We'll have
> to call those morons to figure out what the hell they were thinking.
> And actually, the filtering program is incredibly easy to bypass for anyone
> with some brains.  I will probably set up a PHP proxy on MLUG so that I can
> look at fuckedcompany.com from school.
> 
> > One solution to this would be to power on my computer at home with SSH
> > listening to port 80 (and from there I could SSH anywhere), but that would
> > be a hassle. Is there an easier way?
> I have the same question.  I know you can set up an HTTP tunnel - is it
> possible to run a VPN through one?  I have a Linux box I could hook up as a
> router - is it possible to make it connect to my LAN at home over an HTTP
> tunnel?  Most of the stuff I've seen seems to run off of a web proxy, which
> is non-existent (they just block everything outgoing except 80, 443).
> Suggestions?
> 
> By the way, Ian, I think it would be best to send an email to the school
> board.  This kind of crap really pisses me off, especially since perfectly
> legitimate resources are being blocked (not to mention our website).
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