Last time, I showed how to bypass Websense if you were in an environment which used it. However, this last method required you to be able to install an application onto your computer. What if you have no such rights?
With that in mind, here are a few more tricks to get around Websense filtering so that you can do the work you’re paid to do.
Use Translation Services:
- Go to http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
- In where it says “Translate a web page”, insert the address of the blocked page you want to access.
- Choose to translate from Chinese to English.
The translator will attempt to find Chinese words and translating them to English. Failing to do so, it will leave the original text (in English) intact, providing you with a mirror of the page hosted on the translator’s servers. If the translator isn’t blocked, neither will be the page you want to load.
Switch up the subdomains:
Websense filters by subdomains. So if you want to access, say, “http://www.somesite.com/”, try putting in “http://somesite.com/”. It may just work.