Travel Technology - SouthWest WiFi, Defeat WebSense filter (get around blocked web sites)

The new SouthWest WiFi is great. I just used it for the first time this past weekend. The problem is they block a lot of web sites via WebSense firewall/filters.

Has anyone figured out a way to defeat their WebSense filter? I googled around but couldnt find much so far.

Partial solution:
Using logmein.com to my home computer worked, but this is only a work around, not a real connection. And while it works on my laptop fairly nicely, the iphone experience is not as easy to use of course. So my real question here would be how do we defeat WebSense on an iPHone more than a laptop, but I'm researching both methods.

-I couldnt find a working web proxy.

-I tried using a translation site to mask the site I'm trying to visit but they still blocked it.

Other suggestion?

you can try http tunnel. it worked pretty well for me in china

you can try http tunnel. it worked pretty well for me in china

http://www.http-tunnel.com/html/solutions/http_tunnel/client.asp
Interesting, so does this form a tunnel between your home network so web traffic by passed and tunneled to you?

Did you try the iPhone version as well?
http://iphone-tunnel-suite.software.informer.com/

Break it down and Tell us more! :)

A VPN, Tor, Squid, Psiphon, etc.

The University of Toronto's Psiphon project is designed to take on the censorship and has great free software aimed at bypassing these blocks. Commercial blocking software is notariously over-inclusive.

*http://psiphon.ca/

A VPN, Tor, Squid, Psiphon, etc.

The University of Toronto's Psiphon project is designed to take on the censorship and has great free software aimed at bypassing these blocks. Commercial blocking software is notariously over-inclusive.

*http://psiphon.ca/
All very good suggestions. Also if the op has access to free web hosting (maybe through school or ISP) or doesn't mind spending a few bucks a month for a cheap webhost, they can setup a CGIProxy.

Also there are several anonymous browsing services out there (usually not free though).

What kinds of sites are blocked? VoIP? YouTube? streaming audio?

What kinds of sites are blocked? VoIP? YouTube? streaming audio?
pr0n, not a good idea while flying...

OP probably signed up to FT under an anonymous account to hide that fact... ;)





I kid, I kid... :D

A VPN, Tor, Squid, Psiphon, etc.

The University of Toronto's Psiphon project is designed to take on the censorship and has great free software aimed at bypassing these blocks. Commercial blocking software is notariously over-inclusive.

*http://psiphon.ca/

I don't know that I'd call it "over-inclusive." It entirely depends on what the operator chooses to block. Last I checked, websense alone had like 80 + different levels of categories and classifications. It's really in Southwest's court.

As an aside, it's trivially easy to take out a large percentage of psiphon nodes--don't allow https connections to anything that appears on something like the old MAPS DUL (dialup list), since there should be no reason for a server to be sitting in a dynamically allocated range for dialup/cable/dsl customers.

That said, if Southwest allows ssh thru their proxies, you can do whatever you want.

I have a close friend who defends against false allegations of sexual abuse. She also does drug law defense. Her blog has been blocked by many services. In the US Supreme Court case striking down the first internet decency law, they cited to cases where breast cancer websites were blocked and numerous others.

I stand by my overly inclusive comment.

I don't really care if my seatmate is a pr0n hound, but if he bypasses a block and gets to his VoIP site I'm gonna be p*ssed. :mad:

That said, if Southwest allows ssh thru their proxies, you can do whatever you want.

And if not, just set your ssh server to run on port 443 or 80.

And if not, just set your ssh server to run on port 443 or 80.

Newer versions of websense find that one.

I have a close friend who defends against false allegations of sexual abuse. She also does drug law defense. Her blog has been blocked by many services. In the US Supreme Court case striking down the first internet decency law, they cited to cases where breast cancer websites were blocked and numerous others.

I stand by my overly inclusive comment.

There are plenty of such cases around as well as things like atheist sites being classed as hate sites, sites critical of filtering software being blocked and other such pure censorship things.