As the title of this post suggests, I’m going to highlight the fundamental failure of filtered internet access, be it at home (god help you), school, work, etc. Here it is:
Regardless of filtering methods, theres a damn good chance its possible to bypass them.
Whether or not you agree or disagree, its true. Well when I’m on the scene anyway ( 
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Remember, I, as I’ve stated in previous posts of the same type, cannot be responsible for ANY problems caused, or any trouble it may get you into by you following these steps. You have been warned. Continue at your own risk.
First off, you need somewhere to set up your private proxy. I’d recommend only a small free web hosting account or something. You don’t need much space, but it needs to support PHP and HTACCESS. Check its okay in the terms of service though to run proxy server scripts before signing up! Then grab yourself a standard copy of PHProxy. I’m a kind person and they’ve discontinued it so I’ve got a copy right just here, to save you Googling.
Okay, then upload it to your webspace. Now if you try and access that, most administrators aren’t dumb – its a fact, and they’ll have got their system to automatically block proxy anonymising scripts. The exploit I’ve found is this:
Theres a good chance you can access ANY internet resource, if its protected via .HTACCESS, and obviously, you know the username/password required to access it.
So I combined this exploit with a copy of PHProxy – and it works just fine. Okay, now to set up HTACCESS password authentication, see http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/password/, you can also do it via some PHP header(); tags, defining realms and all that. I wont go into that, just follow that link, it’ll explain how to sort everything out, just put the files in the same directory as PHProxy. Theres also the a very good explanation of HTACCESS at http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml.
Now as usual, I hope this was useful, but do remember if this is sucsessful for you, it’ll mean you can access the much wider internet, including sites that are blocked for a reason. Please, be careful! There are complete idiots out there who make sites that are quite frankly unworthy to be on the internet, a resource originally developed for learning. Yes, I’m talking about shock-sites, the ones that leave you permanantly scarred for life, and other sites of the like.
UPDATE: Due to this posts nature, EMBC have actually blocked “callumhaywood.com/blog/” from their network. The question that springs to my mind is; why? Its obvious that I can access it anyway. Duh, thats what this article is about.
