[OT] Getting out from behind a corporate firewall

[Stephen]

Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> Speaking as someone who recently had to deal with this kind of stuff
> (the employee in question was looking at that Adult Friend Finder type
> sites). I simple blocked the website at the DNS level to redirect to a
> internal web server with a simple splash page saying "This website has
> been blocked by the SysAdmin". No ever contacted the employee and
> after this block was put in place we even noticed a pickup in his
> sales.
>
> Most companies don't measure you work in hours worked but if you are
> actually getting the job done (speaking of most desk jobs). Most
> wouldn't mind if you spend 30 minutes a day looking at different
> photography sites (which by the way are the most common to be
> blocked).
>   
I am an independent contractor, and I have both a consulting business 
and a photography business.

I receive messages to my account on the photography web site. I want to 
be able to access and reply to them at lunch time. But the site is 
blocked at most businesses I have been at.

I do not want to browse the site on my laptop computer inside the 
business network.

I want to use VNC over SSH to my home computer, and browse the web from 
there.

In my experience people who know how to do this kind of thing frighten 
many IT staff.

If I am lucky there will be some really good IT people, but I have 
rarely been lucky in this way.

Stephen
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