I work in IT as well...Those sites may let you in past the firewall but still throw a host of alarms. From an engineers perspective, don't do it unless you are on lunch or off the corp. network. It is not worth losing your job to watch a 20 sec vid from youtube.

 

i have a bit of a weird situation and maybe you it guys will have some advice. i work for a city government. my boss and i are the only ones at work that use macs. it turns out nobody in our it department, it's 4 guys, knows anything about macs.

so, whenever an internet usage report comes out my boss and i don't even show up on it. i know i surf the web more than i should, but for some reason i never come up on it. is it possible we are on a different network or something and are not being tracked? i don't look at **** or anything, but recently i've been spending more time on car and sports sites and don't really want to get busted for it.

 

Or you can just setup a RDP server or RADMIN server (remote to home and BOOM!)

 

What about use the SSL? such as https://www.2hide.net, will that still get you in trouble?

 

Another option that works sometimes is to go into the comand prompt and type in "ping www.examplesite.com" from there it will pull up the IP Address of the website. Take those numbers and type them into the address bar, that MAY get you around the filter (works for our filter anyway).

 

well considering I installed the 8 station network myself - I've yet to **** myself off enough to make me ban those sort of sites. gotta be careful, I hear I'm a real arsehole about wasting time on forums, **** and myspace...