Firewall/Proxy Server Circumvention

Many other students came and asked me how to get by the firewalls and proxies. IT people at school are getting smarter about students using proxies. I thought about this issue for some time and I have a solution. Why not create your own webpages with applets to chat, etc? This new approach will not require a proxy server which could be blocked and tracked. So far it could only be used to chat, but maybe someone could come up with a new applet.

Step 1 THINK!!

I could not emphasize this enough. If you do not want to get caught, think. When IT people hear aobut this new type of circumvention, it will be blocked as well.
First, go to a website which is legal and used a lot. Think! Should you use that homepage that the teacher will question why have you not made any progress (you been on that page for hours)? Will the scroll bar being of a larger page that it should be give away your secret (Google's homepage does not and should not have a scroll bar since it is one page)? Should you use the homepage or an article (to make a teacher think you are working)? Finally, does the webpage include anything that will be hard to visually duplicate offline?
Second, after you have your webpage picked out, construct your offline copy. If you have Internet Explorer 6, click on View and then Source. A Notepad application will open up with HTML coding. In the Notepad window, click on File and then Save As. Save the file to a USB memory stick or CD-RW. You can either learn HTML (not suggested for most) or you can use an authoring software. Microsoft Word can be used. Even if you copy the page and manually edit it, you will haev to manually copy images and change the source of them. If you use anything to edit the page, make sure that your filetypes are compatible. You may need to learn new skills or leave to the nerds to make and distribute. Your goal is to create a webpage that is visually the same.

Comments

[purplemonkeydishwasher]

this wont work. you need to download all the pictures google uses. SCRIPT KIDDIE ALERT!!!!!!

[mcd1992]

then download the images from google its not that hard, in firefox you can click FIle -> Save Page As -> WebPage Complete and itll automatically download all the images and change the anchors to point to the local files

[swagramp]

I have ghostzilla and its pretty cool, but it doesnt help at all with going around proxy filters and that

[ozzyman15]

i cant go to that site i neeed a user name and password to get in

[elctprg]

You will have to sign up for Google services to get the messenger.

[irwinner]

i thought the reason people wanted a school firewall or blocking software was to either disrupt the system (you manipulate data, screw around with settings,ect) or to get onto blocked sites... the method your suggesting does not seem to do either. unless your intending on people incorporating proxy servers into these pages, but that would only be the start page, as soon as an address was entered into the proxy it would display a "bad" page and it would have defeated the purpose. idk maybe the demand for this stuff is different where you are. i know the only reason people at my school want a proxy is to go to myspace or facebook (which are both mindless wastes of time if you ask me). im sticking with my method, get the username + password of kids who don't go to school any more (you know the ones who moved or go to private school now). i mean that cant punish a kid who doesn't go to school anymore, and with 2000 students and 3 it guy they don't have a chance in hell of track who is using the account

[elctprg]

At my old school, we used Novell Netware. Students could use the built-in messenger, but the teachers could track conversations long after they took place if they suspected any activity. My method allows IM for any Gmail users. Maybe if someone created an ActiveX control that could browse the web, we could browse undetected...