This weekend I traveled by plane and as always, I could not access TER by the free public WIFI found in many airports.

Has anyone found a way around this?  

I did join Boingo and can get on TER from them, but they are not everywhere yet.

I'm sure some expert hacker must be out there with a solution to this.

There's a local one that I use and I'll send you a link.

When you use a proxy service, it is the proxy that actually surfs and then sends the results to you. If you setup an encrypted tunnel, it won't be censored.

My iphone browser allows me to access TER through ATT 3G network (even though it's not the best).  If I want to login to my TER account, my booking gmail, my P411 account ... I wouldn't trust public WIFIs, would I?  "Okay, let's meet at Sheraton Boston, room 2112, 5:30 pm." -- wouldn't that be too much info over a public net?

It is a free vpn tunneling service through https, which is *almost* impossible to block. Their ads can be a little annoyig though.

https://www.torproject.org/projects/vidalia.html.en

There's 4 parts to it in the installer:

TOR  (routing software that allows connections to the TOR network)

Vidalia (GUI frontend to TOR)

TORButton (little button for Firefox that allows you to turn it on and off)

Polipo (a local proxy that makes things faster, I think)


You can also try the TOR browser bundle.  I haven't tried it.  If it works for you, please report back.
https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en#torbrowser

Not WIFI, but some services block proxy servers completely. FedEx - Kinkos Stores with pay as you go internet access  facilities block many sites. (I've never tried to connect to TER but it wouldn't surprise me if it was blocked.)

The way around this is to use an encrypted tunnel on port 80 to your proxy service.

The standard stuff like anonymizer won't work; but there are other alternatives.

Of course, this sort of stuff is rather advanced, but it does work.

and access the internet from anywhere.