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At work?

Yup, and that means I have a pretty restrictive firewall.

Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to ec2-50-18-7-165.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8081 <----

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Get yourself a proxy.

One way to proxy is through ssh. Create an ssh tunnel to a trusted machine and setup your browser to use localhost:<ssh tunnel port>:

http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/azul/firefox-ssh-tunne...

This is a decent example. I've seen others that have more options and presumably more functionality.

A few notes from past experiences. Your IT department will completely freak out. Hopefully they'll also be impressed. HR will freak out worse because they won't understand. A good IT employee will come see what the heck is up with your ssh throughput to a weird vps or home box - befriend this person if you haven't already. Average code-monkeys will be impressed, especially if you don't do web development. Finally, it's almost certainly a violation of that 20 page agreement you signed on the first day of work.

This is what I do to get around blocks on some IM services. I work for a large, well-known and presumably IT-savvy organization. Nobody has confronted me about it yet, which in itself is actually kind of worrying. I half expected an IT SWAT team to rappel through the window after starting the tunnel.

Yes, ssh works fine. For your browser: I use tsocks, so I don't have to muck around with browser settings.

I have such a setup for accessing Pandora at work. We are in the UK, so we have to trick Pandora into thinking I'm from the US. Nobody at work cares.

Where I work, we have to ssh tunnel. Our cvs, bug tracker, internal websites and other servers are all located on the other side of the world, and only accessible through a tunnel.

Same here.

Screenshot, pretty please?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8607628/hn.PNG

Also blocked at work.

Dropbox image url blocked? :(

You must work at the same company I do! Imgur isn't blocked for some reason.

Speaking of which, what is the legality of your corporation injecting fake SSL certificates for sites served over HTTPS?

It's 100% legal and quite common. It's their network, (usually) their computers, their time. Mostly organizations doing that are looking for threats to the business and not employee behavior though, of course YMMV.

http://bricestacey.com/hn.PNG

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