How to hack your way out

The Internet was built on the principles of freedom of access, knowledge and information.
Unfortunately, firms and colleges in India now have this bad habit of blocking access to interesting ('ahem') websites. Are you working or studying in one of them? Even governments have started blocks these days.
During the social revolutions in the Arab world, governments had blocked access to social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter. In today’s article we are going to learn various ways in which victims of corporate, college or government Internet policies can bypass these restrictions and start to access all their favorite websites on the Internet.
The easier solution to this common problem is to start your browser and first connect to a proxy server instead of directly connecting to the website that you actually want to access. My personal favorite proxy servers include www.anonymizer.com [1], www.cooltunnel.com [2], www.bypassthat.com [3] and www.anonymizer.ru [4]. Your system administrator will think that you are connecting to seemingly innocent websites, but little does he know that once you have connected you can then use them to secretly connect to some other blocked website that you actually want to connect to!
Unfortunately, companies and colleges are getting smart and have started blocking even some of the most popular proxy servers available on the Internet. The good news is that there are various websites on the Internet that maintain a list of thousands of proxy servers that you can quickly search through to find a proxy that has not yet been blocked by your company or college.
I personally recommend using www.samair.ru/proxy [5] or Codeen, either of which at any given point of time list at least a few hundred proxy servers. Another fantastic technique to trick your system administrator is to use a technique known as HTTP tunneling, which allows you to disguise your browser activity as something different than what it really is.
Ultrasurf is a free software that you can download from the Internet that allows you to perform HTTP tunneling and access your favorite blocked websites easily and efficiently. For the geeks reading this article, it is also possible to bypass the local firewall restrictions and access blocked websites by typing the IP address of the website that you wish to access instead of typing the usual domain name!
These techniques should give you access to your favorite websites for at least a few more months. After that, email me and I will do a sequel to this article and give you some newer techniques of accessing blocked websites!

The writer is a 25-year-old Ethical Hacking Expert, a TV show host and the author of 14 best selling books. He can be contacted at ankit@deccanmail.com [6].