Like to know a secret way to browse Digg during office hours with letting your boss know about it. You can apply the same trick to access Digg when the site has been blocked by your school authorities.
OK, the secret sauce lies here - evercleancanada.com and tmpnetwork.com – these are like Digg mirrors on the same web server that hosts the actual Digg.com websites.
Now if you cannot access Digg stories from a computer or would like to secretly access them without letting the IT department know about it, just replace the word digg in the URL with evercleancanada or tmpnetwork. Here’s an example:
A: http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Microsoft_Bidding_For_Digg
B: http://evercleancanada.com/tech_news/Google_Microsoft_Bidding_For_Digg
C: http://tmpnetwork.com/tech_news/Google_Microsoft_Bidding_For_Digg
These web pages are exact copies of each other but in the last two cases, the images, javascript and css files are served from evercleancanada.com or tmpnetwork.com instead of digg.com so the server logs in your office won’t know what you did on Digg.
Related: Prevent Boss From Snooping On Your Google Search Queries
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/secretly-access-digg-website-in-office-school/3705/
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Reader Comments
Thanks Amit,nice trick!
… just wandering how can a site hosted on same web server can actually act as a mirror for former. Is this goes for all such cases, I mean 2 sites hosted on same web server can be directed to each other… or any other necessities applies to do so….?
Written by Vardaan on 06.26.08
Every Diggnation fan has to know this two sites names
Written by warrior007 on 06.26.08
Thats great,But I cant login to submit any link there, it is directing to digg.com
Written by Bhagwat on 06.27.08
Warning: I checked these with FireBug (the excellent web development tool for Firefox) and there were 3 tracking images loaded from digg.com.
Written by Dave on 06.27.08