I administer the web proxy at work
We block out all kinds of stuff (including b3ta). I don't exclude myself from the blocking for debugging purposes but do 90% of my browsing through an SSH tunnel.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 19:38, 7 replies)

So how does that work then?
and can *I* do it from my desk?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 19:40, closed)

What you need is...
Elsewhere, a system running sshd and a web proxy (such as squid) open on, say, port 8080.

Your co must allow out some port. SSH is usually 22 but any will do.

A local SSH client such as putty

Run putty, set it to tunnel port 8080 and connect to the remote system.

Set your browser to use 127.0.0.1:8080 as a proxy. (Your co may block this)

Et voila, unfiltered (albeit slow) web browsing.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 20:04, closed)

I heard, "elsewhere, blah blah blah..."
C'est la vie. I need to read some more documents.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 22:30, closed)

There's plenty of mirror sites for B3ta.
Apparently Google translate can be used as a proxy. Not sure whether that's true or not.
( Major Turd for tonight only, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 23:30, closed)

Ha ha
Me too!

Of course, for some reason the firm insists on using IE - and that can be controlled via group policy - so, the answer is, user Firefox and then change your proxy.

Ta-da!
(dchurch bah, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 8:03, closed)

And me
We have 2 broadband connections bridged together and filtered through the proxy box, and another one for my web surfing and downloads redundancy...
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 9:13, closed)

Yep, me too
a mate runs an http proxy server for me back in the UK so I can browse sites that are fussy about your location. I use it at work to check my email etc

I am also an IT admin.
( chart cat has an itch, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 9:41, closed)