Technical question: Anonymous, trace-free, 2+2 browsing?

[WeGotScrewed]

Cross posted to News, Views and Gossip

In my workplace, moderate personal web browsing is tolerated by the IT department. However, they do keep a log of the sites that I visit, and 2+2 is visited very frequently. I mean, if I were to be unproductive during work, they would rather me not be constantly surfing poker/gambling websites - and that is probably frowned upon.

I have been thinking, how can I disguise my visits as legitimate web traffic in their logs? I have been thinking about two solutions.

1) Use a commercially available secure anonymizer (like www.anonymizer.com) where I need to pay them something like U$10 per month? Wouldn't the use of an anonymizer arouse unnecessary suspicion as it will be shown in the company's logs?

2) Use SSH tunnelling and use my personal computer at home as a host?

Do bosses really frown on their workers for visiting these kind of sites? Any experiences? Has anybody implemented this kind of solution to hide it from them?

[mrkilla]

anonymizer usually gets blocked as well by the savy IT guy in these cases. You could try paying for a proxy service [thats what anonymizer is just web based] but eventually they will notice all your traffic going through there as well. You could set up go to my pc on your home machine and remote into it if it was that important.
If your boss wants to know what your up to then he can find out.
PS its his right as its his network to allow you what you look at/do at work.
PPS trying to get around it usually makes IT guy mad
PPPS I am one of those said tech guys [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[MadMat]

I use Ultra VNC to connect to my home PC and browse from there if I want to look at a site that my bosses might not approve of!

I also use the same set-up to play poker from work on slow night / weekend shifts.

Mat