How to ignore the proxy server

[maxim_86ualb2]

look it is not a fully police state........... plus u can get around nothin will hapend...... the country wont carea bout the cyber crimes...... man in lebanon all our Pirated CD's r from syria..man syria is the main CD portal...... from the far east.......

man dA_zero

lek ya man , ru7 ala google u fatish ala proxy's mitil ma 2alulak...... bas lek al connection btibta2 ktir..... u lezim tgib proxy list kill youm... la2ino ktir bisakro..... u byif7a.... u lek man rfi2.. ken endo nafes al mishekle......

[Tiger Shark]

neel:

President Bashar al-Asad's government launched a crackdown on peaceful but outspoken advocates of reform in August, sending a clear message that it would tolerate a political opening only on its own terms and according to its own timetable. Authorities arrested leading critics and others active in the freewheeling discussion groups, or civil society forums, that emerged as Syrians sought to claim freedoms that had been denied them during the thirty-year rule of former president Hafez al-Asad. The arrests reversed a trend toward greater openness in a country long dominated by the ruling Arab Ba'th Socialist Party and institutions it controls, and followed earlier positive developments.

Found at the World Report 2002

Yep, I'm sure they are right bloody sweethearts.......

[neel]

they're not what I'd call democratic but they aren't going to put you in an "unmarked grave" for using hotmail, those people are mostly people who want to change the current system wich would damage the current leaders's positions (and wallets)

and to make it a bit more juicy, compare these:
http://www.hrw.org/us/index.php
http://www.hrw.org/mideast/index.php
now I wouldn't call the US of A democratic either

[coolcamel]

da_zero
some free email arabic site listed here no need for ignoring the proxy if just wana a free email.

my 2 cents
http://www.arabic.arabia.msn.com/?DC=true

coolcamel

[nihil]

Hi,

If the ISP is blocking hotmail and yahoo, it is certainly not because they have any objections to them as services. They are concerned with what people within the country might do with them as a means of free speech? If not, why block them?

If anyone has any doubts try a google search for "syrian secret police" I very much doubt if you will need to go beyond the first couple of many pages.

As a comparison, try MI5 and MI6, S.D.E.C.E or "secret police" with the name of any democratic country in the query. I hope that you will see the point.

Cheers

[TheRepublican]

I'm supprised that the Syrian government has a problem with hotmail but not this site. Perhaps they are not aware of it, but this site is a big means of free speech and certainly contains it's share of "US propaganda" , espescially in the Cosmos section . But, I'm also interested about how to bypass a proxy, because my school (while not as oppressive as the Syrian government) has their own filter. I use dial-up, and my school has a T1 connection, but everywhere I try to go registers as porn (it isn't, most of the time ) so I have to download it on my own machine, which is slow as hell. It would save me a lot of time to know how to get past their filter!

[nihil]

TheRepublican

Don't even try it!....................you will be caught and kicked out. Read your AUP or whatever, you know, the document you signed to get access to their SHARED, COSTLY resources.

If you want.......................ask .............................if you don't get, trust me, there is a reason

If all students used the communal high speed link as they liked, it would soon become a very slow, unstable, worm infested link.

If you have a legitimate need for a high speed download, just ask the Admins. They don't bite, and I have never heard of them staking a student out over a red anthill for more than three days (they usually run out of honey by then )

Seriously, don't do it!

Cheers

[TheRepublican]

Yeah, you're probably right. But it's kind of a waste early in the morning when no one is here to use it and you have to download a 150 Mb file and the filter says you can't.

[phishphreek]

TheRepublican: I can't believe that your school filters the web. Are you in high school or college? If its college... is it a religious school? (I've heard of some religious colleges filtering out websites... )

Any college and technical school I've ever been to let you do practically whatever you want on the web. If they didn't, they could be interfeering with research. Info blocked by these filters only let students see part of the spectrum.... which is the wrong thing to do in any college.

You are paying for that bandwidth... I don't know why they wouldn't let you use it.

We are even allowed to login to a linux shell and download files there. We can only keep large files for aprox 5 days before they clear out the temp directories. Our home directories are only 100mb. I've found other servers in which most students don't know about thought. They have no quota and have over 500gb of free space! Each student even has a home drive on those boxes... and don't even know it.

EDIT: Just looked at your profile.

A 13 year old in 8th grade, I can program in around 20 programming languages at this time.

Thats why... they have to protect your young fragile little mind... LoL That is until you get home. When I was in middle/high school... we had NO filters. We could do whatever we wanted... and then again... no security what so ever! Those PCs were always acting up for some reason....

Unless you can convince your parents to get you a broadband connection... you're gonna have to wait till your a bit older for the schools to loosen up on you. Most people your age are not mature enough to handle unfiltered web. Even if you are... 90%+ of the people that go to your school are not.

[MrLinus]

phishphreek80, your school is pretty lenient. I think it depends on the admin at the school and the standard of security they hold. I know here at the college I'm at they limit access (or did) to IMs and you have a quota of space to use (avoids storing of "warez"). Students are given shell accounts only if their class requires it otherwise they install the OS required by the class (or their own if there isn't a requirement) and store stuff there.

And you're only paying for the right to use the bandwidth. That doesn't mean you own that resource. It's stilll the school that is held responsible if you go and do something illegal. Hence, the reason that many schools have AUPs.

That said, if the ISP is blocking access, have you looked at other ISPs or is this a national thing? If it is, the half-police state or not, there will be little that you can do as it is quite likely the proxy is farther up the pipe than the ISP. I wonder if some of the blocking is because of the amount of pr0n spams you get with those "free" email services. Have you looked at other web-based email services?