Bypass filtering systems on pcs without the insecurities of TOR (the onion router)

After reading a post about the onion router (tor) that allows you to bypass censorship without being tracked I was amazed. Then I read that it wasn't very secure as some nodes could input false data and bring back the wrong pages.

I thought to myself, there must be a better way than this, then I remembered there was. I know use this every day at school for browsing and so far haven't had any problems and its 100% secure.

Read on for more!

Step 1 What you will need.

What you will need to make this possible:
A pc running linux (I use ubuntu server 8.04)that is outside the censorship, in my case, at home, and is connected to the internet.

A second pc that you will work from at school running either linux or windows. It may work with mac os but i haven't used it so I don't know.

An internet connection for both the second being the filtered one.

Some basic knowledge of your OS also helps but ill put in all the commands to make it easier.

Comments

[tarkhorani]

Very Good instruction works for me. Thank you!

[mattbeddow]

Glad it was of some use to you :)

[wee_man]

hey i was wondering does this keep the connection from the filtered comp and the server comp open all the time. Because my friend has a limit that he cant go on after 9pm but i figured that the router just won't allow any new connections from his comp to the internet.

[mattbeddow]

It keeps the connection open untill you close the putty window or something else closes it. Im not sure what system is in place to stop your friend going online after 9. COuld be the isp cutting the connection or the router or even a program on the pc stopping web use. you would need to find out which it is to start rectifying the problem

[tarkhorani]

I have a question. do you know any software free or commercial that we give it the 1st Computer IP and the port and click a button to connect to it and all programs connect to it other than firefox also

[mattbeddow]

dyndns.org will give you a text based address to get your home ip (eg example.com instead of 000.000.000.000) but it wont actually connect anything.
Putty will connect to it and open the ports specified to it, then you need to configure all your programs to work connect to yourself on port 7070 to work.
I dont know of any software that will do this for you im affraid

[keastes]

use a host name from dyndns.org or simalir

[KiloVision]

FYI, this technique does route the http requests to your home machine via SSH. However, the DNS requests are still processed by the machine you are on (at work, school, or whatever). While the filtering system will be bypassed, your school's or work's DNS records will show where you went.

[Pie Ninja]

Who cares, it's not like they're constantly monitoring that. And even if they do find out your going on unfiltered sites, they won't know how.

[alex-sharetskiy]

Awesome, too bad i have Vista, or i would totally do it!

[mythbusterma]

that is no matter as to the fact that ubuntu is free, and extremely easy to dual-boot, so just make a cd give it 10 gigs of your hd and you now use ubuntu

[alex-sharetskiy]

i only have 30gb free of my 120gb hdd

[mythbusterma]

thats ok, unbuntu can run on like 4gb if you really need to

[alex-sharetskiy]

what if i want to boot but not add anything to the hard rive (run everything on ram)?

[austinairport]

just make a Virtual machine.
I havent done it with Ubuntu. But I did it on my Vista machine. I made a Virtual Windows XP machine. Its tight, and i know for a fact that you can do it with Ubuntu.
Download VirtualBox for the sun microsystems site. and install it.
I think their is an instructable on this site on how to run Virtual machine.
Hope this helps =]

[mattbeddow]

I dont know a huge amount about live cds of linux distros but im fairly sure you cant add software to them once theyre made so you would either have to install it to your hdd (ive got a ubuntu distro running on my eeepc and it is only using under 2gb) or get a distro with the required software already on it.

[mythbusterma]

running it on ram would be the incorrect term it would be a boot cd and that is the standard for ubuntu

[alex-sharetskiy]

you got a link?

[mythbusterma]

bittorrent or standard?

[mythbusterma]

and also would you like 32-bit or 64?

[alex-sharetskiy]

umm... bittorrent i don't know about 32-bit or 64-bit what comes standard on bad computers? >2gb ram, 2ghz

[mythbusterma]

here is your link

[mythbusterma]

MAKE SURE you make the cd a image not just write the file to the cd use magic iso or something like that

[mattbeddow]

im fairly sure it works on vista too.

[alex-sharetskiy]

is ther any way you can change your ip while doing this?

[dla888]

TOR: Google it on the internet and you will get a link to a site.

[keastes]

and more often than not it will work to bypass the filter, I use it, althouogh it failes 30% of the time

[mattbeddow]

yeah the problem with TOR though is you bounce between hundreds of pcs to get anonimity but if any one of those computers is sniffing your traffic they can find out all sorts of stuff, hence the need for this instructable. And it works 99% of the time :P