How to Unblock Myspace

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Today, social networking sites such as MySpace, Friendster or Facebook have become popular. People of all ages use at least one social networking site account. MySpace remains the most popular one. People become a bit addicted to social networking sites since it is a way to stay connected to the people who are important to them. However network administrators often deny access to social networking sites at the workplace. If you are affected by this, you might to find out how to unblock MySpace at your place.

There are some things you can do that could help to unblock MySpace.

First, you can use a proxy website. Proxy websites help an online user to access sites which have been restricted. Since many are curious how to use proxy websites to unblock MySpace, here is a more detailed explanation. Go to the proxy website. Enter the URL of the website which you think has been blocked. For MySpace, enter http://www.myspace.com This would help your access MySpace indirectly since you are using a different IP address. Be aware that some network administrators update systems to include new proxy sites that could help to block them so you have to find newes proxies.

You can also look up for the IP number of MySpace and enter that number to the browser. Some administrators just block the websites by name.

On this blog you find more ways to unblock MySpace or other social networking websites at the office.

Now, you have some basic ideas how to unblock MySpace. Enjoy and connect with your friends while at the office!

School Filters: how the stuff works

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This is the story from the guy, who worked as an admin at school.

Most large scale companies and well established school systems use a filter service that uses the filter definitions. At that school they use Lightspeed. Lightspeed installes a server that filters all traffic from the internet into the school's network. Every day Lightspeed downloads the sites addresses their customers have blocked by hand, process that definitions by their proprietary algorithms and serve out a new list of definitions. Additionally, Lightspeed spiders are also crawling the web and assigning categories based on content, keywords, and server owner, as well as other factors. Lightspeed (the service) also uploads the defintions to the local filtering server which are then joined to our local filter. Most proxy websites are categorized under proxy/security. That ones that the filter hasn't caught, admins get from the students by walking around and looking at the screens. :)
Even more, filtering servers can also filter web sites through keywords and redirects. If anyone try to search the term "proxy" the filter blocks that search query. When students type the myspace.com, the filter automatically redirect to yahoo.com. I suppose most enterprise-level filters act in the same way.

How Do Proxy Websites Protect Your Privacy?

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Proxy websites become popular nowadays. They are great tools to make you invisible while browsing the web.
Proxy websites are also useful when accessing the Internet on public computers. Proxies help you to browse the Internet without being blocked or traced by software that restrict the use of the web.

Proxy websites will help to protect your computer by not giving your private information such as IP address away to third parties. Instead of using the one from the user, it will use the its own IP address to request the service from the websites you are browsing. You will also keep the privacy in your local computer since proxy website will hide all the websites addresses you have been browsing through the proxy. All you need is to enable url encryption feature. No one who might have access to your computer will know what sites you have visited. To increase security of your internet browsing, please use different proxy websites for each session.

How to unblock websites.

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Some firewalls block websites only by name. There is a way to unblock websites by using IP addresses.
First, try the website. Type in the website url you want to go to and if that doesnt work, try these options.

1. Use the IP address of a website instead of text name. To get the ip address of a website just go to Start > Run (or just pres [Win] + R), type 'cmd' then type ping [desired website name]. Example: ping myspace.com
Write down the IP address. Example: 216.178.38.116

2. Open web browser and enter http:// your IP address.
Example: http://216.178.38.116

If you are not succeed, try a little more complicated solution...
3. Open up the Microsoft calculator and go into scientific mode.

4. Look at the first number of the ip (216) and on the calculator make sure Dec is checked. Type in 216 then hit Hex. A number should show up D8. Write down the number as 0xd8 on notepad.

5. Repeat it for each number in the ip adress.
Example: 216.178.38.116 would be converted to 0xd8.0xb2.0x26.0x74

6. Go to the your browser and put http:// then the number
Example: to get to myspace.com it would be http://0xd8.0xb2.0x26.0x74

Unblock internet with proxy websites

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Proxy websites are extremely popular nowadays. Proxies increase your anonymity online. They also help to bypass internet restrictions when you need it.

Proxy websites allow us to access any site we want without leaving any traces behind. Surfing anonymously is not a crime - it is our right, as we want to communicate with friends and colleagues freely, making use of the unlimited possibilities of the internet.

There are hundreds of proxy websites online, serving more than one million users daily. If you want to find one of these websites - just visit one of the major search engines and type school proxy or proxy unblocker or anything else, keep experimenting. You will find lots of proxy sites, which are easy to use, even if you are not an advanced internet user.

How to unblock websites at school (school proxies)

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Trying to reach your favourite website from school but it's blocked? Luckily there are ways to bypass school firewall and unblock websites. The easiest way to unblock Myspace, Facebook or whatever you want is to use a proxy server.

What do school proxies do?

A proxy server works like gateway between your school computer and the website you want to access to. The proxy server visits website you entered, then download it and transmit content to your computer. By using proxy website you are surfing the web indirectly. School firewall sees like you just browsing one website (proxy) so you stay unblocked.

Tips for using proxies at school

It's best to use new proxy websites. Popular proxy websites get blocked by school firewalls. Proxy lists get blocked too. Often school firewalls block the word proxy in web site addresses so I suggest you to use proxies that don't have word 'proxy' in their names. Other way to unblock websites is by making your own proxy. This is not easy way but it pays off. Just search google for guides. Some other ways to bypass school firewalls are by using Google Translator or Google's cached version of the web site. These tricks don't always help you to unblock Myspace or Facebook but sometimes they're quite useful. To unblock Myspace I suggest you to use regular type web proxies though.

Google translator as your school proxy

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If you access the internet from your school or public library, you have probably already realized that many popular web sites have been blocked. Here I show you how to access such sites by using Google translation service.

The idea is simple. Google translation service works similar to proxy server between blocked website and your school computer. The problem is that we don’t want pages to be translated. To bypass this problem we need to assign wrong language to translate from. You know, the translation service does not translate unknown words. Translator leaves unknown words as they are. Look at the example code below. Just change myspace.com to url of the site you want to visit.

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=ar|en&u=www.myspace.com

Using Google App Engine to run proxy server

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Hello everybody. Today I'm gonna tell you how to use Google App as your school proxy server.
Almost a year ago Google had officially announced Google App Engine.
Google App Engine allows you to run your own web applications on Google's servers.
It costs nothing to get started. Free account allowed to use up to 500 MB of server space and enough CPU and bandwidth to serve around 5 million page views a month. You can also use a free domain name on the appspot.com domain, or use Google Apps from your own domain.
App Engine provides a runtime environment that uses the Python programming language.
I'm not surprised, that some guys had written proxy server scripts to run on Google App Engine. You can find them on the web. Mirrorrr(mirrorrr.appspot.com) and Gappproxy(mostly being used in China) are good examples. They are open-source, so you can even download and setup your own proxy server. I doubt your school firewalls block Google App. So I assume this is one more way to unblock websites at school.

Web proxy scripts overview

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Proxy web sites or proxies are generally used for anonymous browsing and bypassing network restrictions. There are number of free web proxy scripts to build such websites. The most commonly used proxy scripts are Glype, PHProxy, Surrogafier, Zelune and CGI Proxy. Let's take a closer look at them:

Glype

Glype proxy is a free proxy script written in PHP. As on official website the benefits for its users are:

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• server-side caching to improve speed for the end user
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• javascript support allows more sites to be browsed without loss of functionality
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• unique URLs provide greater privacy- once your session expires, any URLs stored in your history are invalidated
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• virtual browser lets you choose your own user-agent and referrer, and even tunnel the connection through another proxy server
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Have to say that Glype is the most popular PHP script for making web proxies now.
Large community and plugin based architecture allow to quickly integrate site-specific code for sites unsupported by the base proxy script.

PHProxy

PHProxy was popular a couple of years ago. But as of September 2007, this project is no longer under development.
The author abandoned this project and gave up the source code. There are several versions released after that but the project is dead.

Surrogafier

Surrogafier is a three tier web proxy written in PHP. It was not widely distributed
Pros:
Can remove cookies, HTTP referer, HTTP user-agent, on page java scripts, and objects; proxy tunneling, i.e. creating chains of proxies for extra security.
Cons:
AJAX applications might have problems with Surrogafier
SSL connection through Surrogafier is not secure (as stated on the official website)

Seems like it's not supported any more. The last release was on May 2007.

Zelune

Looks like Zelune is not supported either. The official web site says:
'Well we have now decided to put the new phphantom proxy script and the best bits of the zelune scripts together to makeTHE BEST PROXY NETWORK SCRIPT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN...'
but PHPhantom website seems a bit confusing
Our company offers a virtually unlimited list of capabilities because of our vast corporate networking. Within our alliance are companies of all sizes. When it comes to our business, we offer our customers a powerful resource and a recipe for success.
I hope they'll change default template's text soon.

CGI Proxy

The CGI proxy script written in Perl and acts as an HTTP or FTP proxy. It is very simple to install, and very configurable.
The features include text-only support (saving bandwidth), selective cookie and script removal, simple ad filtering, access restriction by server, URLs and cookies encoding, and more.

But there are officially stated limits and bugs:

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• Anonymity MAY NOT BE PERFECT! In particular, there may be some holes where JavaScript can slip through.
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• If you browse to many sites with cookies, CGIProxy may drop some.
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• There are violations of the HTTP protocol.
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• Only HTTP and FTP are supported so far.
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CGI proxy script more compatible with websites, runs faster, uses less bandwidth, easier to enhance. The only disadvantage is the resource usage. CGI proxies use a lot of server CPU and RAM, so not all hosting services allow them.

Where to find school proxies

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Thousands of web proxies are blocked at school and work every day.
It is best to know how to find new proxies.
You can find proxy servers at proxy topsites. Proxy owners create new proxies every day as they are aware that their proxy has become blocked. They submit these proxies to the topsites. This helps both them and you. You can find hundreds of web proxies to use on the topsites. You will be able to unblock MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, and most blocked sites.

Unfortunately most of topsites are blocked too. But you could use search engines. They can't block google ;) All you need is to enter something like 'unblock myspace', or 'school proxy'. The google gives you tons of links.

Unblock cmd to access blocked sites

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Hello guys. This is Nick, the School proxy owner.
I've found very interesting video video on how to unblock command prompt and access blocked sites. The basic idea is to find out IP address for the blocked website and enter it instead of the URL. This trick works if the firewall does not block websites by IP.

You can watch the video on youtube:
unblocking CMD at school or a locked computer

Tor is not completely secure

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Some people think the Tor is secure but some do not.

The article in wikipedia testifies the following weaknesses:

DNS leaks,
Traffic analysis,
Eavesdropping by exit nodes

Lets see the last one:

In September 2007, Dan Egerstad, a Swedish security consultant, revealed that by operating and monitoring Tor exit nodes he had intercepted usernames and passwords for a large number of email accounts. As Tor does not, and by design cannot, encrypt the traffic between an exit node and the target server, any exit node is in a position to capture any traffic passing through it which does not use end-to-end encryption, e.g. SSL. While this does not inherently violate the anonymity of the source, it affords added opportunities for data interception by self-selected third parties, greatly increasing the risk of exposure of sensitive data by users who are careless or who mistake Tor's anonymity for security.

This weakness can't be fixed because of Tor's design.

Web proxys

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How to bypass your school proxy

Internet in fact is biggest source of information nowadays. But the freedom of browsing is often ceased in schools and workplaces. The network administrators there block such a sites and the students and workers can't access many sites. But in certain situations, we want to cross the limit. One of the ways is to use web proxy server. With a proxy, you can visit a blocked site with the impression that you are visiting another site which is not blocked. But there's a catch. Your network administrators know that you're using proxys, so they start blocking those proxies too. The only way to bypass internet filter is to use new as the old ones got blocked. So here you are. This site provide you with new web proxiess ho help you to bypass internet filters. Just subscribe the newsletter to receive new proxies by e-mail.

School proxies

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There are two different types of proxy. One involves installing special software or changing configuration on your PC. The other is just visiting the special website and putting in the address you wish to visit.
A proxy is a way for you to get privacy and to view internet sites that are blocked on your school, work place, or even the library network. When you use a proxy, all the information is transferred through it. In fact most of the schools, workplaces and libraries do not allow you to install special software on their computers. So I recomend you to use web-based proxies. Just check out search engines to find them.

How to bypass school firewall

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If your work or school has use filtering to prevent people from visiting certain websites - a proxy server is a way to get around such restrictions. Proxy server works by acting as a "middle man" - first it download the requested page itself, then proxy server sends you downloaded page, all images and other objects, thus bypassing any filters or firewalls. This is good alternative for students to bypass school firewalls or filters to access such popular sites as MySpace or Bebo. Most anonymous proxy servers use open source web scripts, such as PHProxy or Glype or Zelune, which are indeed excellent proxy software.