Defeating/Hacking Geocoded websites
Cracking Geo-coded websites
Geo-coding IP address is now very easy. Here’s a web service that will tell you where you (or your web server/proxy) are located (click).
That’s a problem for anonymity, but that’s not really my concern. What concerns me is net neutrality, not my ISP degrading my service but that I can’t view content originating in another country (which presumably is the whole point of having a global internet). Internet video is a particular concern as providers like to save bandwidth costs on free video by locking out foreign visitors (the bastards).
Hence the need for a hack
A badly implemented website can be fooled by using an internet proxy. Here (click) is a “CGI Anonymizer” that (despite the UK name) will place your IP Address somewhere into the US.
For a more complete service, enter one of these proxy services into your browser. Note: A UK designation doesn’t necessary put your Geocoded IP into the UK, my first attempt put me in the US. Check using the web service at the top of this blog. I used 129.12.3.75:3124 for the UK.
These new Proxy settings kill MSN Messenger for some reason, so I need something more permanent.
Here is a Geocoded UK only radio station (click). If you’re out of the UK, you’ll get an audio message saying something like “Sorry but magic 105 is available to UK listeners only”. With a UK proxy setup, I can download the media description file (magic.asx), edit it with notepad and extract the PHP script with full link (emap.php?c=magic1054-70&.wvx), which eventually will give up the true media link (click or click) which should work wherever you are.
More proxy server sites:
http://www.publicproxyservers.com/page1.html
http://www.aliveproxy.com/transparent-proxy-list/
http://www.stayinvisible.com/web_proxy_list2.html
