Bypassing EE’s Content Lock system without a credit card or identifying yourself
When you buy a service from EE it will be filtered at their moderate level by default, the other options are Strict and Off.
Strict is designed to be safe for children and Off is for Adults.
Of course even if you were to request that all filtering to be turned off it is still possible that you’ll fall foul of an incorrect IWF filter and be presented with the following page;
Putting the IWF and their secret blocklists aside there are many reasons you may not want to disclose information to EE or handover a credit card (you might not have one for instance) but still need to get past their filters that will block a female centric “adult” site that blogs about Censorship due to the content of the copy but will quite happily let you visit LiveLeak.com and watch people get killed.
The good news is that the EE Content Lock is quite easy to circumnavigate.
DNS Spoofing: No
MiTM SSL: No
Deep Packet Inspection: Yes
Destination IP Transit Interference: No
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Unique Reason for Block: No
Categorised Block: No
Ability to report incorrect block: No
The goto advice is always to download Tor as it will not only bypass all filtering but it will also help mask those who need to use Tor to aid in protecting their privacy.
If you aren’t comfortable with installing software such as Tor then you could follow our guide on Creating a SOCKS5 Proxy which also works perfectly.
Finally the EE Content Lock system cannot MiTM SSL so even for blocked URLs such as http://reddit.com/r/nsfw (note that reddit.com isn’t blocked but /r/nsfw is!) can be accessed by using SSL.
Unfortunately reddit relies heavily on Akamai so the SSL certificate will be incorrect and you really shouldn’t get in the habit of accepting incorrect SSL.
Whilst this post proves it is trivial to bypass Government co-erced filtering it is likely that there will soon be a call to make filtering mandatory and criminalising attempts at bypassing them.
The best way to prevent this is to write to your MP and tell them that you don’t believe that any form of filtering has any place on the Internet.
Noah
? How do you use SSL, I’m over 18 not from the UK and even with proof of ID EE wont remove my content lock.
They keep saying it’s unlocked but it’s not.
Please give basic instructions on SSL or at least clues to figure that out.
Op
Reddit is now SSL by default; http://www.redditblog.com/2014/09/hell-its-about-time-reddit-now-supports.html
Ade
A digital Ocean Cloud based server on SSD with 1 TB traffic is $5 per month.
could we set up a system where people can easily host TOR on these Servers to increase the size of the TOR network and it;s traffic capability. .
How easy would it be to do .
Op
I think your idea has been implemented as https://cloud.torproject.org
One of the other articles explains how to set up a Tor relay that can also be used as a SOCKS4 proxy, two birds one stone