Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 14:17:31 08/17/05
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On August 17, 2005 at 07:03:26, Marc Lacrosse wrote: >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 and when you have all running the tournament is already over and your boss asks you what did you do this week? ;-) Well that's probably the reason why I don't have access to USB-Ports or CDROM or floppy on my machine at work. Joachim
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