OT: Anonymous proxys (for film)

[Madison Kelly]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 09:25:09AM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
> 
>>  I know this sounds dubious and it is off topic but I was hoping 
>>someone here might confirm something for me. A client of mine is in the 
>>film industry and just gave me a call about a made-for-tv movie he is 
>>working on about addiction, including internet/porn addiction.
>>
>>  He has a scene where he wants to show a person at a public library 
>>bypassing their filters. The first thing I thought of would be an 
>>anonymous proxy but I've not done this before so I didn't want to tell 
>>him that for certain.
>>
>>  So my question is just what he asked me: How would someone bypass 
>>filters at a library? It can't be an uber-l33t thing, it should be a 
>>relatively accessible thing. This is a normal person supposedly.
>>
>>  Please reply off-list. I welcome flames if this is too off topic, 
>>too. :p Thanks!
> 
> 
> Well there is always the good old www.anonymizer.com and clones of such
> services.  The proxy there would have to explicitly disallow access to
> all those anonymizer sites to block such use.
> 
> Of course google cache is a great way to get at elast the text content
> of just about any site you could want as long as access to google is
> permitted (I suppose a smart proxy could block all requests to google
> that involve asking for a cached copy).
> 
> Writing a good filtering proxy is VERY hard.  So many things people can
> do to get around them, and you have to continuously update them for new
> sites that bypass things.
> 
> Len Sorensen

That was the site I was thinking of and couldn't remember! Thanks!

Madison

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