NationStates Jolt Archive


Sonic Wall and other network blockers.

Sinuhue
22-12-2005, 21:09
We've got SonicWall at work, and they've been slowly but surely working on blocking all sorts of sites. MySpace is the newest addition to this blockage, being labelled 'Adult/Mature content'. Included in that very broad category are online swimwear stores, and many women's fashion stores. During Halloween, we realised many sites about Halloween were blocked as being 'Occult'. Many sites are mislabelled as 'gambling/gaming' or 'occult' or 'adult/mature content'...but once blocked, you generally can't get an unblock. I'm just waiting for them to block NS:( Then what will I do?

Has anyone gotten around a network block of NS? Is there any hope?
Lunatic Goofballs
22-12-2005, 21:11
The solution is clear: Sabotage. :D
Sinuhue
22-12-2005, 21:18
The solution is clear: Sabotage. :D
Be clearer damnit!
Lunatic Goofballs
22-12-2005, 21:21
Be clearer damnit!

Break the fucker. :)
Sinuhue
22-12-2005, 21:22
Break the fucker. :)
Um...how? The 'wall' isn't actual a tangible object...and it's administrated from afar.
Lunatic Goofballs
22-12-2005, 21:25
Um...how? The 'wall' isn't actual a tangible object...and it's administrated from afar.

That definitely complicates matters. *rubs chin thoughtfully* Is there any way to make your job impossible to do with it in place? (I don't know what you actually do at work)
Sinuhue
22-12-2005, 21:26
That definitely complicates matters. *rubs chin thoughtfully* Is there any way to make your job impossible to do with it in place? (I don't know what you actually do at work)
I don't know what I do either.

No...they might 'unblock' a specific site, after checking it out...but NS wouldn't pass.
Drunk commies deleted
22-12-2005, 21:28
Hope this helps.

http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2002/10/msg00437.html

http://www.peacefire.org/bypass/sonicwall.shtml
OceanDrive3
22-12-2005, 21:29
Break the fucker. :)or even better..

**********... :fluffle:

retracted :cool:
Sinuhue
22-12-2005, 21:31
Hope this helps.

http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2002/10/msg00437.html

http://www.peacefire.org/bypass/sonicwall.shtml
YOU ROCK MY WORLD!!!! That second link lets me bypass the wall with no problems! I LOVES YOU, PORGY!
Lunatic Goofballs
22-12-2005, 21:33
I don't know what I do either.

No...they might 'unblock' a specific site, after checking it out...but NS wouldn't pass.

How do they unblock? ANy way you can find out and do it yourself?
Sinuhue
22-12-2005, 21:34
How do they unblock? ANy way you can find out and do it yourself?
Fuck that...DC gave me the key to the kingdom...HOT ASIAN PORN HERE I COME!
Lunatic Goofballs
22-12-2005, 21:34
YOU ROCK MY WORLD!!!! That second link lets me bypass the wall with no problems! I LOVES YOU, PORGY!

YAY!

That's what we're here for:

To help avoid work. :)
Lunatic Goofballs
22-12-2005, 21:34
Fuck that...DC gave me the key to the kingdom...HOT ASIAN PORN HERE I COME!

Double YAY! :D
Sinuhue
22-12-2005, 21:35
YAY!

That's what we're here for:

To help avoid work. :)
And then some! I was really starting to get worried...I seriously don't know what I'd do with 8 hours to kill, and no NS...
Heron-Marked Warriors
22-12-2005, 21:42
And then some! I was really starting to get worried...I seriously don't know what I'd do with 8 hours to kill, and no NS...

The thing they pay you for?:p
Sinuhue
22-12-2005, 21:48
The thing they pay you for?:p
They pay me to not give them grief, and to look busy. They don't really want me doing much more than that, because it makes other people look bad. Don't believe me? The guy sitting beside me is napping right now. After a long three hours of reading, "Memoirs of Geisha" and snacking on mini brownies.
Heron-Marked Warriors
22-12-2005, 21:49
They pay me to not give them grief, and to look busy. They don't really want me doing much more than that, because it makes other people look bad. Don't believe me? The guy sitting beside me is napping right now. After a long three hours of reading, "Memoirs of Geisha" and snacking on mini brownies.

Wow. There is a heaven, and they pay you to be there.
Sinuhue
22-12-2005, 21:54
Wow. There is a heaven, and they pay you to be there.
Actually, it's hell. Oh, it's fun for the first couple of weeks, but then even surfing the net gets burdensome. Your creative juices dry up from lack of inspiration or intelligent real life interaction, and after a while, you just pray for something to fall on you, crush the life from your body, and end the boredom.
Swabians
22-12-2005, 22:00
Will this peacefire thing also get you around websense? It blocks everything at my school and sometimes, when I actually want to use the computer for good(shocking I know) I can't do anything. Plus, it doesn't let you play games or read anything with religious content, or even use google image search.
Heron-Marked Warriors
22-12-2005, 22:05
Actually, it's hell. Oh, it's fun for the first couple of weeks, but then even surfing the net gets burdensome. Your creative juices dry up from lack of inspiration or intelligent real life interaction, and after a while, you just pray for something to fall on you, crush the life from your body, and end the boredom.

So, when you do make other people look bad, how do you do it?
Sinuhue
22-12-2005, 22:08
So, when you do make other people look bad, how do you do it?
You work your ass off on a project...let's say you create a series of powerpoint presentations highlighting specific grammatical points that students regularly have difficulty with, arrange for these presentations to be burned to disk AND made available via the website, and you do this in the space of three weeks. Buddy next to me has been working on a SINGLE presentation for the past...I'm not fucking kidding...YEAR. And it's still not done. So, rather than saying, hey, this guy is a lazy sack of shit, they say, oh, Sinuhue's presentations must be substandard...so let's pull them, without evaluating them in any way, because sack of shit takes over a year for one presentation, and here she's got 12...that can't be possible!

So fuck it. Why bother.
Sinuhue
22-12-2005, 22:09
Do I sound bitter? Good. Because I am. Which is why I hope to all hell that I get into law school...
Sinuhue
22-12-2005, 22:11
Will this peacefire thing also get you around websense? It blocks everything at my school and sometimes, when I actually want to use the computer for good(shocking I know) I can't do anything. Plus, it doesn't let you play games or read anything with religious content, or even use google image search.
Oh, and to answer your question, I don't know...let us know if it DOES work though!
CSW
22-12-2005, 22:12
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/h/4807
Swabians
22-12-2005, 22:15
Sure thing, it may take a while though, seeing as I won't be in school for another few weeks.
Sinuhue
22-12-2005, 22:21
Sure thing, it may take a while though, seeing as I won't be in school for another few weeks.
If it's something I've got a lot of right now, it's time.
Heron-Marked Warriors
22-12-2005, 22:23
So fuck it. Why bother.

Sounds like a good philosophy to me
Kryozerkia
22-12-2005, 22:40
HAve someone launch a DoS to disable the whole network so you can go home.

Fail that... hope someone can send in a virus that disables those things and then exploit it!
Sumamba Buwhan
22-12-2005, 23:25
couldn't one set up a site that loads whatever other site you want to in a frame? I guess if it gets discovered and put on the blocked list then it would be useless though eh?
Ravenshrike
22-12-2005, 23:31
Actually, it's hell. Oh, it's fun for the first couple of weeks, but then even surfing the net gets burdensome. Your creative juices dry up from lack of inspiration or intelligent real life interaction, and after a while, you just pray for something to fall on you, crush the life from your body, and end the boredom.
www.sluggy.com

www.somethingpositive.net

www.itswalky.com

www.userfriendly.org

www.gpf-comics.com

Those should tide you over for a while.
Ravenshrike
22-12-2005, 23:33
You work your ass off on a project...let's say you create a series of powerpoint presentations highlighting specific grammatical points that students regularly have difficulty with, arrange for these presentations to be burned to disk AND made available via the website, and you do this in the space of three weeks. Buddy next to me has been working on a SINGLE presentation for the past...I'm not fucking kidding...YEAR. And it's still not done. So, rather than saying, hey, this guy is a lazy sack of shit, they say, oh, Sinuhue's presentations must be substandard...so let's pull them, without evaluating them in any way, because sack of shit takes over a year for one presentation, and here she's got 12...that can't be possible!

So fuck it. Why bother.

Ow, your life is one giant dilbert cartoon. All you need to do is cultivate an anger problem and you'd make a perfect Alice. Start calling your coworker Wally.
Sinuhue
22-12-2005, 23:38
Ow, your life is one giant dilbert cartoon. All you need to do is cultivate an anger problem and you'd make a perfect Alice. Start calling your coworker Wally.
Hehehehe...you know, I never got Dilbert until I worked here. And the thing is, I've never wanted to work in an office, and the job description carefully skirted around the fact that this is an office job. I was duped. But I'm not going to hang about and get even more angsty. Oh no. It's either law school, or another job by next September.