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When I began my new job I had a critical issue - blahs, there simply wasn't enough function to do The job involved switching computer tapes and disks onto an old mainframe. It was the kind of machine that cost millions years past, and nobody appeared to want to upgrade it. The amount of work changed but sometimes I'd go for an hour or 2 without doing anything. It had been occasionally quite challenging with the hum of airconditioning and the server room making it even more challenging to stay awake. My supervisor wouldn't have minded me filling in the hours by surfing the web, perhaps browsing Face Book but regrettably it was all blocked. This is to stop the day staff from wasting their days, but regrettably it then applied to me too. I found how it had been blocked, it was through a small device known as a content filter which prevented access to the Face publication URL and also looked within the content for just about any petitions. The trick I discovered was to make use of a variety of methods, first you needed to use a proxy to relay your request to Fb or the blocked site. Secondly you'd to use some type of encryption so that the content filter couldn't read the contents of your request. In this case it'dn't see any mention of Fb and thereby let the request. It functions in pretty much exactly the same manner everywhere, even in those nations that are occasionally blocked from getting sites like Fb. In fact on a country level the filtering is much less advanced and simpler to avoid. They did therefore by uncomplicated DNS poisoning, when Turkey recently blocked entry to Twitter. Which means that when you request the ip number of Twitter, you were given a false one from the ISPs DNS servers, which rather routed you through to some Government written page. These blocks are really easy to avoid, all you need to do is use a different DNS server - something like OpenDNS. Or you can avoid using others DNS servers to some extent and resolve the addresses manually and pop in a hosts file. But regrettably most corporate networks are somewhat more sophisticated than that. Anyhow it is possible to find these sorts of programs but sadly they're quite pricey to operate so I did not find any free types. What you want though is a proxy/VPN service which enables a degree of encryption - it additionally needs to be swift as a slight overhead is added by encryption.
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