Author: Marc Lacrosse
Date: 04:03:26 08/17/05
A little story ... You are at work. You would like to follow WCCC games on-the-fly, but this damned icelandic homesite does not relay the games. You have a very restricted access to the internet : only http (web browsing) on port 80 and mail. The corporate firewall is well tuned and everything is logged. Sure it's impossible to connect to ICC as guest to follow the games. And even if it could be possible, IT staff would detect it and this could be the beginning of all kinds of major problems :-( Moreover, no soft can be installed on your win2K box without being detected... AND NOW WHAT FOLLOWS IS PURE FICTION ... 1. you take your little USB stick 2. you put on it : - TOR from http://tor.eff.org/ you launch it without modifying any parameter it connects through port 80 to a network of anonymising servers through crypted communications (a kind of tunneling where nor the endpoint nor your corporate firewall can trace from whom to where the communication is established) and waits for local input on port 9050. Sometimes the connecting process fails. Then you stop and relaunch it. - PRIVOXY from http://www.privoxy.org you add as first line of its config.txt (without quotes): "forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 ." don't forget the final dot This is a local proxy server. You launch it. It listens on local port 8118 an redirects what it gets to Tor at localport 9050 -FREECAPS from www.freecap.ru this is a so-called "universal socksifier" In its settings options, in "Proxy settings" you choose Server : 127.0.0.1 Port : 9050 Protocol : you choose SOCKS v5 do not check "Authentication required" you launch it -JIN 2.12.1 or 2.13 from http://www.jinchess.com/ download the "zip file without extras" this a freeware ICC and FICS client with a nice GUI it requires a java VM installed locally put it on your USB stick (in case you have no java VM installed, winboard would also work from an USB stick but its interface is less friendly for watching games) 3. Within Freecaps You create an entry pointing towards "jin.exe" and its directory. Relative paths are accepted (no need to worry about which drive letter has been given to the USB stick by windows on this machine) you launch that entry from within freecaps 4. Within Jin you log as guest in the welcome screen you click on "finger WCC05" ... and you begin to smile :-) END of the FICTION Sure nobody would try such a trick...? Regards (and good watching!) Marc PS playing is also possible with some lag due to encryption/decryption and long routing through multiple servers
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