library hacking

[heroinjunky]

i am having trouble finding a way to block the IT departments intervention at my university's library. this is the only access i have to the internet and it doesnt offer much in freedom. i am willing to study the ways to hack it, i just dont want to waste my time reading bullshit curving the subject.

[deathlord888]

find a local library
and do you have to log in?
try using a proxy

[heroinjunky]

im sorry i should of stated this first, computer language is still foriegn to me. it would be best not to piss people off and ask you for help when it would take a forum just to explain the basic, just direct me to a good website for begginers in this subject or maybe a beginer website altogether to better understand it. i mostly just want to download music to my mp3 and any other cool hacks worth looking into while i pass time.

[Durandal4]

If you're looking to learn hacking, Freetibet made a pretty good thread for beginners:

http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/f50/useful-sites-for-n00bs-and-others-19987/

In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) which services the requests of its clients by forwarding requests to other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource, available from a different server. The proxy server provides the resource by connecting to the specified server and requesting the service on behalf of the client. A proxy server may optionally alter the client's request or the server's response, and sometimes it may serve the request without contacting the specified server.

~Courtesy of Wikipedia

Use a proxy. It's just a website that you go to in order to go to other sites blocked by your firewall by hiding your IP and replacing it with their own.

[deathlord888]

good explanation durandal, but if you do get a working proxy i doubt you will be able to download music with it.

your best bet is find a portable copy of a web browser (firefox for example) and put it onto a flash drive and then install an extension that allows you to download videos from youtube, then have another program on your flash drive that extracts the audio from the video file.

[heroinjunky]

sounds like i got a lot of researching to begin. im going to need a lot of coffee and pot for this. appreciate the help

[deathlord888]

your welcome, stuff like this is difficult. usually universities have tighter security than highschools

BUT GOOD LUCK MAN!!!!!!!!

[Naklsonofnakkl]

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/99f1/
Buy this, use a proxy, and use an internet program off it. If they figure it out, and trace it back to you WIPE IT CLEAN!

Otherwise, best bet is to learn to hack, mask your IP with a proxy, and log into your university internet through china :D

[deathlord888]

if you dont actually have to log in then try everything, but if you do have an account i wouldnt risk getting kicked out of uni for it

[heroinjunky]

well you can log into it through public, but it restricts you to just using the internet on there specific site. i was hoping i could log in through public and find a way to slip by the firewall (im guessing "firewall" is what restricts you from viewing anything other than what they allow). than do my bidding as i please. also would i have a problem on xp itself setting up the mp3, up until now i have only been charging my mp3 i have not tried ripping or deleting music from it.

[deathlord888]

unless they have windows media player on there already then ya you will have troubles