The Censored Web
For the past few days, I’ve been doing vac work at the Bank that pays for my rent.
Stereotypically, one of the first things I did was check what parts of the Internet is available for free access, and how to get around any blocks. Here’s a summary.
- Gmail is blocked via a simple URL filtering. www.gmail.com is out, but mail.google.com works. The embedded Google Talk client works too. Nice.
- Google Reader works.
- Facebook is blocked. A proxy site such as www.kproxy.com lets you see most of the things. However, it is rather unreliable. Also, GUI components such as drop down menus and pop up dialogues are lost. There might be easier ways around it, but I haven’t found anything good. In laziness, I’m settling on Opera Mini 4 on my phone, connecting over 3G. The ability of this little app to render full web-pages (not just mobile ones) on a phone is simply epic.
That’s all the stuff I’d really want on a day to day basis I guess.
Tags: privacy