MetaFilter posts tagged with proxy

America's Secret War

Surfin' Bird — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:55:28 -0800

America's Secret War: charming Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to the Iraq-Iran border to investigate claims that the United States is supporting militant groups that are attacking Iran.

WARNING: This page may be altered in transit!

loquacious — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:44:51 -0800

ArsTechnica is reporting on the practice of altering and editing web-traffic enroute from the server to your client/browser. Is your ISP, work or connection path altering your requested documents? Find out here.

Sears Wants To Hack Your Computer

ikkyu2 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:52:19 -0800

Online communities to become more 'all-encompassing.' If you join the SHC community on Sears.com, all web traffic to and from your computer thereafter will be copied and sent to a third party marketing research firm - including, for example, your secure sessions with your bank! The Sears.com proxy will send your logins and passwords along with a cleartext copy of all the supposedly secure data. But wait, it gets better: you can only view the true TOS once the proxy has already been installed. Hey Matt, you're lagging behind - this is the future of online community-building! [Via.]

Psiphon

Optamystic — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:25:18 -0800

Psiphon facilitates circumvention of national firewalls.

Work Friendly!

mathowie — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:43:42 -0800

Work Friendly is the greatest website ever for people trying to get away with web browsing at work. You enter a URL, it launches a new window styled to resemble a Word Document window. It even includes a "Boss" key to convert the page to regular text. Check out MeFi in it. [via waxy]

Greasemonkey + Ruby = MouseHole

freshgroundpepper — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 01:34:36 -0800

You've heard of Greasemonkey (which allows you to remix web pages in firefox), you might also remember the Ruby Programming Language that all of the cool kids are talking about these days. Mix the two together, make it useable through any modern browser (using a proxy), and voila MouseHole!

ParisParamus — Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:53:29 -0800

Are you being watched at work on the Web? And how carefully? The good news is that I finally have more than dialup at work. The bad news is that my Internet is filtered, or at least being watched via something called Websense. How common is use of such software these days? Does anyone have experience with this type of software? What information does it log? Can it be defeated?

mrmorgan — Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:31:12 -0800

Censorware.org one of the best censorware pages, has died. "Due to demands from some of the people who contributed, in however minor a fashion, to this site, it has been taken down." Dagnabit! Anybody have any idea why? The site had one of the neatest pages on the net, estimated how fast it was going to show how impossible it was to keep up. Free spxxch loses an important defender.

gluechunk — Wed, 03 Jan 2001 18:04:14 -0800

nofilters.org - a new one-stop (info)shop for all your anti-filtering/censorware needs.

efader — Sun, 27 Feb 2000 12:17:55 -0800

how to get around the recent napster embargo