at my place of business they have disabled most of the common ports for IM clients.... I am told there are a few available to go through, but I dont know how to find them...

any ideas?

7/16/2006 4:38:04 PM

what about usin a proxy?

7/16/2006 4:39:16 PM

^^ how do I set one up?

7/16/2006 4:42:41 PM

You could install Tor (http://tor.eff.org/) and set up the IM Client to use your local computer as a proxy. Should work for you. I haven't done it but in theory it should work.

7/16/2006 7:53:21 PM

if the IT person is worth anything at all, you arent going to be able to work around this

7/16/2006 8:04:17 PM

^ not really

7/16/2006 8:05:45 PM

nmap the firewall for open/filtered ports

7/16/2006 8:08:30 PM

^ what do you mean by "nmap"?

7/16/2006 9:17:31 PM

insecure.org

7/16/2006 9:21:47 PM

how about working instead of trying to get around network security, you lazy fucker?

7/16/2006 9:38:35 PM

just use putty to handle the proxy to an outside server and also to encrypt your data so the Admin doesn't know what you are doing.

7/16/2006 11:23:27 PM

ssh tunneling is also a good way to do it

7/17/2006 2:00:00 AM

If you are running a Windows system, enable remote desktop and remote in to your home computer from there. Remote desktop = encryption and nothing potentially bad cached on your work computer.

I SERIOUSLY doubt the IT folks have port 3389 blocked/disabled.

7/17/2006 6:43:59 AM

I think you're forgetting that when you're talking about gestapo IT people they tend to work with whitelists not blacklists so your logic is flawed.

7/17/2006 7:03:33 AM