Dissent at School

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-11 03:22pm

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

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2004-03-11 03:32pm

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.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-11 03:58pm

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.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2004-03-11 09:57pm

Okay, in that case no problem. Just making sure, y'know?

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-03-11 10:23pm

Luckily I happen to be in a class at school where there is no proxy software at all.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-03-11 11:51pm

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.)

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2004-03-11 11:53pm

GoldenFalcon wrote:Luckily I happen to be in a class at school where there is no proxy software at all.

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...

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-03-12 01:40am

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.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-03-12 01:45am

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.

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.

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2004-03-12 02:57pm

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

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2004-03-12 05:48pm

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.)

Same here, no restrictions at all, not even porn, as was shown in numerous and extensive empirical studies concerning the subject.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2004-03-12 05:52pm

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.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-03-12 05:54pm

I don't think my high school had them...

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-12 07:00pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I don't think my high school had them...

What? Computers?

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2004-03-12 07:44pm

Catholic high school. They blocked sites related to asexual reproduction.

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-03-12 07:58pm

The Aliens wrote:Catholic high school. They blocked sites related to asexual reproduction.

Probably just a really bad filter problem, you should contact the ITs there.

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2004-03-12 08:02pm

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.

justifier · Post by **justifier** » 2004-03-12 11:29pm

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.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2004-03-13 12:29am

GoldenFalcon wrote:
The Aliens wrote:Catholic high school. They blocked sites related to asexual reproduction.
Probably just a really bad filter problem, you should contact the ITs there.

Hey, http://www.marsexplorer.com/ is banned at my school.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2004-03-13 12:38am

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....

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-03-13 03:46am

Exonerate wrote:
GoldenFalcon wrote:
The Aliens wrote:Catholic high school. They blocked sites related to asexual reproduction.
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.