Aka a simple guide to bypass ’security’ where proxies are used to block certain URL from being accessed and/or does a scanning of illegal keywords - never mind that sometimes, for some obscure reason the proxy will actually block a valid URL. Take for example the Windows Mobile Team Blog; because it contained a few forbidden words (which I have no clue what they are), Symantec Web Security feels that I cannot read content on that site. What do I do then? Simple, head to http://www.scoobidoo.net/ and use it by entering the URL of any site that has been blocked access. Scoobidoo.net is what is known as a free web proxy that will enable anonymous surfing (because visited websites will see its IP address, not yours). Also, because scoobidoo.net actually encodes your URL, your proxy won’t be able to determine which site you are visiting. This causes any sort of security measure that works by filtering URL to fail. However, proxies that scan for forbidden keywords will still take into effect but another simple click will solve this - by a click I mean click on soobidoo.net’s SSL proxy. If you do this, content will be encrypted along with the URL.

So there, you’ve just bypassed the security measure implemented via proxies. Note that these shouldn’t be used to access illegal sites yadda yadda yadda. I use it because the proxy I’m going through is being too smart resulting in too many valid sites being blocked.

Side note: Notice that proxies also try to be smart by caching file downloads. This is the case if you see that when initiating a download, nothing happens for quite a while then suddenly, usually within seconds, the download goes from 0% to 100%. While this works fine for small files, large ones usually time out before download completes. By using the SSL proxy method outlined above, this won’t happen because the proxy won’t be able to read any web traffic hence it won’t be able to know if a file download is happening.

Of course, if the proxy you’re trying to bypass is blocking scoobidoo.net in the first place, Google for other free proxies. There’s bound to be 1 or 2 that it missed