Boing Boing: Argonne National Laboratory is blocking Boing Boing (or maybe not, see update)

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Argonne National Laboratory is blocking Boing Boing (or maybe not, see update)

An employee at Argonne National Laboratory says: "I'm at a big US federal site, 3500 employees, never blocked you before. There is an option where I can request that a domain be reconsidered if there's cause. I'll keep my eyes open."

If you are stuck behind a Boing Boing-proof firewall, you might be able to access Boing Boing using this link: http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.boingboing.net

This clever little trick from Google Hacks allows you to access restricted web sites using Google language tools service as a proxy.

Reader comment: Adjam says:

I used that 'Google proxy' method to bypass our sysadmin's paranoid web restrictions all the time two years ago!
He would block it though, so instead of using google.co.uk /translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.somthing.com i would use google.co.jp or google.co.fr. And he was so incompetent that every now and then he'd just reset all the web restrictions without realizing it and I could use .co.uk again.

Reader comment: Charles says:

I'm not sure who said boingboing is blocked from Argonne, but I know I check your site daily and it's not blocked. It's a big lab - maybe someone's department has a local firewall setup. It's definitely not labwide.

Reader comment: Scott says:

I think my app Bitty should be able to get through to blocked content, for example here's boingboing.
I just released a new version. Here's boingboing in Bitty as a Google personalized home page module:
1) Go to: http://www.google.com/ig/
2) Click "Add Content" in the top-left corner
3) Look for "Create a Section" at the bottom of the new left-hand sidebar, and copy/paste this URL
4) Click OK at the prompt

Reader comment: Brian says:

Don't know if this is just a coincidence but.. BoingBoing was blocked at Prudential starting today. Noticed this morning when I went for my daily fix!

Reader comment:A reader says:

Regarding the bypass of firewalls you suggested to be able to read Boingboing if it is blocked…
I thought you should know this method is very popular here in China to bypass government filters. Google Translate doesn’t work, but lesser-known translators (like, say, http://www.worldlingo.com) work perfectly. It doesn’t work for Google Translate and Babelfish, though… I think the Chinese government is wise to this and banned these sites.

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