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How to bypass the Great Firewall of Australia

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Dear Internet users, I have decided to provide a list of ways to bypass the Great Firewall of Australia to look at all the child porn you want to protect your privacy, security and freedom for the truth. All of these techniques are legit and legal, and surprisingly the education department has helped in teaching students how to use and setup these tricks. If these stop working, then the government has broken the fundamentals of the internet.

These are the following techniques that are typically used, from easiest to hardest.

  • Web App Proxy
  • Http Proxy
  • SSH Tunneling
  • VPN

Techniques

Web App Proxy

This is dead easy to setup and use. Step one is to find a working proxy, which is as simple as googling. Just jump on google and search for “web proxy” . These are popular with students at schools with restrictive internet. Here are some that might work for you.

  • http://hidemyass.com/
  • http://proxy.org/cgi_proxies.shtml
  • http://www.kproxy.com/
  • http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/
  • http://www.phproxy.org/

HTTP Proxy

This is a little bit harder but works with more websites. The first step is to find a proxy, which you can use a site like this to find a proxy address, or just google. Once you have an address you can update your proxy settings in you browser. This site provides a detail guide on setting proxy settings in different browsers.

SSH Tunneling

This works best if you have access to SSH on a remote server outside of Australia. Here is a good tutorial on how to do it.

VPN

Your final option is VPN tunneling. This get’s fairly complex quickly, but basically you create a virtual network and route all your traffic through a remote end point outside of Australia. You could setup your own with software like OpenVPN, or leave the hard work to someone else like this site.

Final Note

So basically if a grade 8 student can break through a filter in place for education Queensland that is more restrictive with a smaller user base, then I’m sure a pedophile could work it out quickly. This filter is not being put in place to protect your children from inappropriate content to start with. Mr Conroy has even stated that high speed sites will not be filter such as YouTube, as the filter can’t work that fast. The filtering works faster than a blink of an eye stat is for a low bandwidth (not video content)  site.  YouTube is exempt from this filtering scheme. Blocking a whole 1000 sites for a mere 125.8 million doesn’t quite seem worth it. 125 could go a long way to setup a new school or hospital. Instead we waste it on this shit.

Also worth noting is that without compromising every single secure site (Banks, PayPal, eBay, Company Documents, ect) the filters will not be able to filter secured traffic, making it easy for these porn sites to evade the filter.

Injectors

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The only thing that ticks me off more than seeing a 4WD being used just for city driving, is a 4WD being used for city driving, with dirty injectors or the like, puffing out nice thick black smoke, every time it starts / changes gears.

It just ticks me off being behind these cars.

On a side note, I’ve started riding to work for several reasons, first being fitness, the second is saving the environment, and finally it’s saving me fuel money (which has never really hurt me badly as I run a little 4 cylinder hatch, and usually only drive to work – and now with fuel prices under a dollar). It’s mainly to get fit, since some days just involve me sitting on a computer all day.

Have a very merry Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate).

The "Naked Cowboy"

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Good news, it seems like no more porn filter, but ISP level filtering will go ahead with child porn url dectection. :(

Email from the dbcbe

ISP FILTERING

Thank you for your correspondence and your interest in internet service provider (ISP) filtering.

Attached is information from the Minister on this matter. In addition, the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has prepared material on a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding ISP filtering. This list is available on the Department’s website at www.dbcde.gov.au/cybersafetyplan

These FAQs will be updated regularly to provide you with the most up to date information on ISP filtering issues.

We hope this information is of assistance.

The Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy

PDF attached

School

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So, I thought I would try out google documents at school to see how it runs and to show some people it. To my surprise, google documents is blocked. BLOCKED.

I’m seriously, what is google documents going to do to hurt the user, the schools network, peers around or staff. It’s google documents. It’s made to be used in various locations, and is a free replacement for Office.

This is just madness.

Teachers Rights

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Today (well at time of writing 22/5/08), I was walking with a group home during a flex off period, and we came across a sports class that conducts scenic walking as a sport. The teacher stopped us like he was a police officer in authority (personally I was going to keep on walking, as I thought it was a joke and if it wasn’t it’s out his rights to stop us. But nearly everyone else in the group stopped so I thought I would conform) and got use to show ID, so he could determine if we were in Grade 12 (The only grade that can get variation at the time). Now as far as I know, we had been let out of school and weren’t under the control of the school and teachers have no right to stop students. If we were waging we would be placed in the brilliant absent system and so on so forth.

Should teachers be able to stop students and check if they should be in school? I think not, your thoughts would be appreciated.

Marks

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I got two marks back yesterday. English I got a C-, which isn’t too bad for me for an inclass assessment. I also got in my mail, my blood mark, which is A+. If only my school marks were as good as my blood. I already knew my blood type but it’s nice to be able confirm it from a source that isn’t mum.

www.dreamtilt.com.au

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Dreamtilt for non Australian readers is a cheap dial-up ISP for Australia. Now being a fairly well established ISP you would think that they would have decent web coders for their user login parts of their sites. Think again, several weeks back I stumbled upon a poorly written login function on their site that allowed the use of a simple SQL injection (text book styled), that allowed access to login without a valid username and password. The exploit could have been used to edit or delete (lets just hope they keep backups at-least) tables. Now the exploit has been fixed after I contacted the site via email (only took them a week to include one simple function) so I guess I can talk about this now. It got me thinking, how many dodgy programers are out in the wild. Considering that this a simple thing and any web developer should test or sources of injections before releasing a site to the public. I am by no means a programer, except for the occasional script for work.

I suggest you read http://thedailywtf.com/ if you have time. Most dodgy programs end up there.

And Dreamtilt, well done.

Second time this year

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On Monday, for the second time this year, I will have no assignments, previously after the first week of school, assignment have overlapped meaning I’ve always had school in the back of my mind. I hope I don’t get any new assignments on mondays -_-. Only 3 terms left :>