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What is the best way to access websites block by Websense?

The organization I work for has Websense monitoring the network. Recently, they tightened the reins on the program to disallow audio podcasts like Twit.tv and others.
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beltira | 3 years, 4 months ago
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If you have a fast enough internet connection, you can leave your home computer on and use a service like Log Me In to connect and watch videos from your own desktop.

https://secure.logmein.com/home.asp?lang=en

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darth continent | 3 years, 4 months ago
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You could try some of the suggestions in this thread, HOWEVER, be careful as going around Websense could be in conflict with your organization's computer policy and get you disciplined or at worst fired.

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teff torbes | 3 years, 4 months ago Report

What darth said.

It's not hard to do, but doing it could cost you your job or get you a warning.

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robbrown | 3 years, 4 months ago Report

Ya, download these at home and bring them in.

Or go to your manager / I.T. department and justify why you need them.

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colttrickle | 3 years, 4 months ago
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As an IT pro, I agree with the previous answer about going around your company policies. That could cause some major problems for you depending on how strict the company is with it. If it is something legit, send a request to IT department and they might unblock it. With that being said, you could use a proxy service to do that but it is obviously going to be slower.
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nativenerd | 3 years, 4 months ago
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In most cases, the blocking programs can't get every site. The easiest way around it would be to use an anonymous proxy(anonymizer.com, hidemyass.com, etc). To your company, it just looks like you are going to that one site, but it handles all the traffic from there. However, you should realize that you are probably in direct violation of company policies while doing this. And, IT will see the spike in bandwith and realize what your doing. In some cases, this is actually a firing offense, depending on your company.

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nativenerd | 3 years, 4 months ago Report

I wouldn't call it draconian. You'd be AMAZED at how much money stuff like this actually costs a company. Not only with straight bandwith costs, but also with lost productivity not only from the user, but from valid services when 500 simultaneous podcasts clog the pipe. Don't forget, IT can't think in terms of one user, they need to take every request, and multiply it by 50/100/500/1000/howevermanyemployeestheyhave to see the real effect it will have on their network. We actually got taken down during the elections when SNL released the Tina Fey as Sarah Palin skit...

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darth continent | 3 years, 4 months ago Report

Yep, once I brought my work laptop after leaving uTorrent on from downloading some stuff on my home network. I got an IM later that morning from one of the IT guys asking me to shut down the torrent activity.

Fortunately they're not as draconian where I work as at some places, but at any big job site you can almost guarantee packet sniffing is actively monitoring not only the amount of traffic, but what type of traffic is traversing the network.

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teff torbes | 3 years, 4 months ago Report

Until IT finds that people are using anonymizer and other similar sites... and block them. Then you have to find a new one. :p

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sasanders | 3 years, 4 months ago
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use a Virtual Private Network (VPN). I use HotspotVPN . Not only can you bypass network security, but you will also have secure access on open wi-fi networks. http://www.hotspotvpn.com/

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