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by amnesiac on June 13th, 2005

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How do Internet Content Filters work? Are there any other ways of accessing websites that are blocked by these filters?

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  • by KingNetSurfer on June 30th, 2005

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    internet content filters, often read a web page and if certain keywords are located on those web pages it will block the content. There are several ways around these, although none are easy.

    You can set up a linux server, and then connect to it, through SSH and remap your ports to that box, then all things you are looking for will actually hit that computer, be encrypted and then sent to your computer, through the tunnel (which the software can't read) then decrypted on your end.

    you could use an HTTP tunneling software, in which all information is packed into a cluster of packets, which will hide the information, but getting them to work can often be more of a headache than it's worth

    I'd suggest just going to sites that are allowed.

    Another option is have whatever content you want emailed to you on a webmail account that's secure (like gmail) or yahoo (if using the secure side) and then you can see the information and the software can't block you. (SSL is that little lock thing that shows up in the browser that's what Secure means)

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