proxies

[Fat Tone]

Hypothetically of course: Say someone was out of the country for a little while and wanted to watch the online streaming video of their national tv broadcasting company. Say that company restricted usage to their own country. Then you would use a proxy based in the home country. Hypothetically, of course.

So if you wanted to find a proxy you could trust, how would you do it, and are there any risks that aren't taken care of by a good AV program?

Would, say, xroxy, with its searchable database, be a trustworthy source?

Cheers,

T.

[MultimediaMan]

You're thinking good... and I've run into the same problem while on business travel.

[TransformX]

Why not instead keep an SSH server running on your home PC and tunnel through it?

[Gurm]

One would, in my hypothetical world, VPN into the office and stream video through the tunnel. Or VPN into home, and stream video through the tunnel.

I'd never use a proxy.

But I hear they're great and some are even anonymous! Excellent if you want to surf illegal pr0n. Or so I'm told.

[VJ]

Apparently, some streaming video services seem to recognize the fact that you are connecting through a proxy, and still block the video stream...
Other proxies could hypotheticaly negatively impact the bandwith, making video streaming difficult.


Jörg