On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 21:03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
SQ wrote...
A Houston (TX, USA) public library? Could be next to impossible, as well as excellent cause for revocation of your library card and criminal prosecution if caught.
Well, the idea would be not to get caught. I'm thinking basically of just adding one of those $40 Tor nubbins at the end of a USB cable and then tucking the nubbin under the carpet with a sign saying, "DO NOT TOUCH". If it lasts a month then it might be money well spent, particularly if Al Qaeda successfully nukes DC.
Damn. They blocked Telnet? They might as well just block TCP/IP. Do they do this by blocking the likely ports or by merely de-balling the protocol stack somehow? I assume Tor is smart enough to try various open ports....
All you get access to as a library card holder is a Web browser (or pathetic excuse for same, as I think it's a hacked-up IE). The computers at the Houston libraries don't allow access to the USB ports from what I have seen, and in order to get access to anything besides a Web browser you would probably need to reboot the machine and you then have maybe 15-20 minutes before a librarian notices you. Now, the Harris County libraries might be different; I have not gone to one. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@speakeasy.net>