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Dissent at School

Posted: 2004-03-11 03:22pm
by kojikun
Okay, at my school, we have site blocking software, so we can't view certain sites. I've taken it upon myself to create a semi-proxy (it uses PHP to remotely load the HTML content of a site and embed it into a non-blocked page which is then loaded). When I get home, I'm going to try to add some code that rewrites the links so that they direct to my proxies loader. I can't do much about the images, though. But still, it's a little hack that I'm rather proud of. :)

http://66.176.46.28/uploads/gotoaddy.html

Posted: 2004-03-11 03:32pm
by Elheru Aran
You sure this is legitimate? I have the feeling that if you get caught, you're going to be extremely deceased...

If I were you, I'd just do what surfing I wanted to at home-- all that work ain't worth the reaming you'll get if you're caught.

Posted: 2004-03-11 03:58pm
by kojikun
Actually it's not for bad sites, I made it because if you search for something REMOTELY related to their block list you can't get it. Nothing. I've had fucking research sites blocked because of "unwanted" content.

Besides, it's on my home computer and they can't trace it.

Also, if i can figure out some way to load images as well, I'm considering setting up a china proxy, to get around the Great Firewall.

Posted: 2004-03-11 09:57pm
by Elheru Aran
Okay, in that case no problem. Just making sure, y'know?

Posted: 2004-03-11 10:23pm
by GoldenFalcon
Luckily I happen to be in a class at school where there is no proxy software at all. :P

Posted: 2004-03-11 11:51pm
by fgalkin
Luckily, I happen to be in a college with no restrictions at all (except porn, maybe, but you wouldn't do that on a public terminal anyways.)
:P
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Posted: 2004-03-11 11:53pm
by Exonerate
GoldenFalcon wrote:Luckily I happen to be in a class at school where there is no proxy software at all. :P
We've got filtering here... Luckily,
1. My friend is in CompTech, so he has all the passwords.
2. I have several ways of, err, bypassing the filtering...

Posted: 2004-03-12 01:40am
by Stofsk
fgalkin wrote:Luckily, I happen to be in a college with no restrictions at all (except porn, maybe, but you wouldn't do that on a public terminal anyways.)
Well... sometimes you would. If you... didn't know any better. And uh.... were stupid enough to do... it.

*ahem*

Not that I ever did. :wink:

Posted: 2004-03-12 01:45am
by Rogue 9
Stofsk wrote:
fgalkin wrote:Luckily, I happen to be in a college with no restrictions at all (except porn, maybe, but you wouldn't do that on a public terminal anyways.)
Well... sometimes you would. If you... didn't know any better. And uh.... were stupid enough to do... it.

*ahem*

Not that I ever did. :wink:
There are a bunch of high school freshmen who were doing precisely that at the student center lab a while back. First off, they're not even allowed to use the lab. Secondly, not only were they surfing for porn, they were running over to each other's computers and laughing and talking out loud about it. I wanted to smash their skulls together and throw them out myself. :roll:

Posted: 2004-03-12 02:57pm
by Oni Koneko Damien
Hmm, at my high school, we had similiar site-blocking software. Also, you could only access the net if you had signed a sheet and were enabled for it. Of course, we easily found workarounds.

For getting on when you weren't 'signed up' for it, we simply ran the net through Word. Apparently they didn't think to extend the block to that program. As for getting on 'forbidden' sites, the program was only geared to work for Netscape. I think it was alt-f10, but there was a command that brought up a list of all programs students normally aren't allowed to use. We simply ran explorer through that.

-Damien

Posted: 2004-03-12 05:48pm
by Sir Sirius
fgalkin wrote:Luckily, I happen to be in a college with no restrictions at all (except porn, maybe, but you wouldn't do that on a public terminal anyways.)
:P
Same here, no restrictions at all, not even porn, as was shown in numerous and extensive empirical studies concerning the subject. :)

Posted: 2004-03-12 05:52pm
by Darth Garden Gnome
Christ, you're an inventive bunch aren't ya? At my school there's a much simpler way of beating the blockers: go to the site through Google.

Posted: 2004-03-12 05:54pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
I don't think my high school had them... :|

Posted: 2004-03-12 07:00pm
by kojikun
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I don't think my high school had them... :|
What? Computers? ;)

Posted: 2004-03-12 07:44pm
by The Aliens
Catholic high school. They blocked sites related to asexual reproduction.

Posted: 2004-03-12 07:58pm
by GoldenFalcon
The Aliens wrote:Catholic high school. They blocked sites related to asexual reproduction.
:wtf: Probably just a really bad filter problem, you should contact the ITs there.

Posted: 2004-03-12 08:02pm
by The Aliens
Haha- IT's. That's good. Our business teacher, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Hitler in terms of physical appearence, runs everything, and so uses massive blanket filters to protect against all sorts of sites. Unless there was a specific site that I needed to use often, I don't think it's worth the trouble of incurring this chap's wrath.

Posted: 2004-03-12 11:29pm
by justifier
Just go to altavista.com/babelfish and type in a website and ask it to translate from a language to english and viola! No need to do it the hard way.

Posted: 2004-03-13 12:29am
by Exonerate
GoldenFalcon wrote:
The Aliens wrote:Catholic high school. They blocked sites related to asexual reproduction.
:wtf: Probably just a really bad filter problem, you should contact the ITs there.
Hey, http://www.marsexplorer.com/ is banned at my school.

Posted: 2004-03-13 12:38am
by Keevan_Colton
Hah, my town councils meeting minutes are blocked on grounds of "SEX-Gross" which is also the grounds SD.net is blocked on......

Suddenly I wonder if my council might be deserving of respect....

Posted: 2004-03-13 03:46am
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
Exonerate wrote:
GoldenFalcon wrote:
The Aliens wrote:Catholic high school. They blocked sites related to asexual reproduction.
:wtf: Probably just a really bad filter problem, you should contact the ITs there.
Hey, http://www.marsexplorer.com/ is banned at my school.
That's a problem with most Internet filters. They can't tell the difference between "Click here for 5 gigs of grannies having sex with 500 pound black guys" and "School sexual education program".

I had a problem the first few months I was here with an Internet filter that blocked out relatively innocent words for no reason (oddly, it considered "rrated" an expleitive, and I got stuck with words like "ove"), and would consider the end of one word and the beginning of the next one expleitive (It would read "James Bond: Agent 007, think it was referring to "bondage" and end up with "James nt 007".) The embarrasing part was that I could disable it buy right clicking on the icon in the toolbar.