FACEBOOK GONE... awww i have Your Freedom

Hey all.

I am back with a purpose to fulfill through this post, well recently i heard that Bits has restricted the proxy servers to block Orkut, Facebook and etcetera and etcetera.

Well I have a solution for you... this might not work at once but if you give me proper inputs on what exactly is happening, I may get things cosy and running for you.

So let's get going.

First thing you need to do is to get the Your Freedom Client from the Site. Pretty simple :)

http://www.your-freedom.net/

You can have many download options. Those using Windows flavors may download the executable and those using *NIX flavors may use the .jar ones.

If you are a mundane Windows user just get the simple executable. :)

Now here's what Your Freedom is all about...

As you can see in the image, the firewall the institute bounds you in is generally what restricts you from the sites like Orkut, Facebook etc because it knows the IP address these sites provide and hence block it directly in their Domain Name Service( DNS ).

But what the Your Freedom client will do is this... it'll send your request to an unrestricted site( there are lots of site that can act as servers and your institute jut cannot stop'em all... :P) . When you send your request of orkut.com it actually dosent goto orkut, it is rather wrapped in a request to one of the servers of Your Freedom( that u'll select ). Hence the firewall dosent know that it's a request to Orkut as it has been wrapped in a request to the YF server. The YF server then unwraps it, knows that u want to access Orkut, gets that page( because it has got the access rights ) and sends that page of orkut.com as a reply.

Again an interesting fact.... how does the firewall not know that it's a Orkut page while it is comming inside your Network.

Actually the page orkut.com as been sent by the YF server... and hence it's got a tab of YF.

To installation and working:

1. Get yourself registered on the Your Freedom site. They'll mail you a username password pair:

this is what i created for u guys:

Username: orkuthack
Pass: orkuthack

Please register yourself in case this dosent work or mail, reply to this post in case you want one.

2. Steps to Configuration:

The first screen you'll see is this:


Click the usual next :)


Now as far as i know this is the most critical step.... in Kgp here we use proxies and hence the fields are filled with those. But as far as i have gained knowledge many LAN's dont have proxy services... i am pretty amazed how they get them to work.... but if you have one put it there... else leave it blank.

If you do the usual nexts... and if the settings are all fine u'll get this list of servers.... not xactly this but maybe more maybe less.... :)


Now choose one of them and you're almost done.



Now save and exit....




Start the connection.... if you got this far them congrats.... you are through!

Now to the real stuff... how to access the restricted pages....

Fisrt open your Firfox, Internet Explorer and have a look at these screenshots... u'll get the feel automatically... :)

Goto: tools->options->advanced



Now goto the settings tab:

it's just full screened so dont be banboozled.... now put the placeholders as they are :)

If everything has been done perfectly... you may sufr the net.

Just a simple logic here... if you open google.com... what shall you get??

You wont get the familiar google.com/in but rather the google.com which is local to the sever... so if it's a france server then the language of googl shall be french :P.

Please gimme comments over where xactly you are facing problems..

Regards to all distressed friends
Sanket