[ale] Getting around blocking software

[Ryan Williams]

> Do you know anything about how it works?  Are they blocking port 80 and
> forcing you to go through a proxy?  Are they doing transparent 
> proxying?  Are
> they filtering each tcp packet?

We really have no way of knowing for sure. I'm sure it's some software 
package they purchased which flags words and phrases and blocks the 
domain and IP when if finds a match. Apparently she was looking at 
black and white photography blogs and someone had posted a cut-link 
that said "nude photos". I'm pretty sure that's what was flagged it 
even though she didn't click on it. They did the same thing with Amazon 
a while back for similar reasons, though now access to that site has 
been oddly restored (I guess the IT guys had shopping to do).

Basically, I'm just looking for something that will mask the domain/IP 
for her so they just see my local IP or something similar. I'll check 
out squid and see if that will work.

Ryan