does anyone else have to deal with Internet filtering at school or work? My high school blocks everything:
all forums
all blogs
Wikipedia!
facebook
Google translator
any page with any reference to alcohol such as the word beer
It pissed me off...
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Started by Peter, Oct 23 2007 10:43 PM
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 12:42 PM
Nope.
Blogs and facebook I can see, but BEER?
Blogs and facebook I can see, but BEER?
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 03:48 PM
Skier, on Oct 24 2007, 12:43 AM, said:
does anyone else have to deal with Internet filtering at school or work? My high school blocks everything:
all forums
all blogs
Wikipedia!
facebook
Google translator
any page with any reference to alcohol such as the word beer
It pissed me off...
all forums
all blogs
Wikipedia!
Google translator
any page with any reference to alcohol such as the word beer
It pissed me off...
Sucks for you. There are ways around it. if you want some ideas just ask.........................
(this is coming from the kid that got kicked out of high school for hacking the school network......... in 12th grade)
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 04:46 PM
My school is pretty liberal about its PC policies. I don't know of any site that is blocked, but I haven't tried going to a porn site and don't want to find out what might happen.
I'm not sure of the type of computers your school has, but if you can find out the parental controls it has, you should research some methods online on how to crack it.
I'm not sure of the type of computers your school has, but if you can find out the parental controls it has, you should research some methods online on how to crack it.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 05:01 PM
It is not computer based, but network based. So whether it is a school computer or my laptop or a teacher's laptop or my phone, it is always the same. The program is called Lightspeed Systems by the way.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 05:35 PM
The county blocks everything, the obvious ones like Myspace and Facebook and Youtube, but also Wikipedia, Google Images (but there's an easy way around that one) and every game site. Apparently they can also see what blocked sites you tried to access from your district account
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 06:28 PM
On the WiFi access points, my school blocks no site that I know of, but the block all the TCP/UDP ports except 23 and 80. So only HTTP and FTP access (and crappy MSN Messenger after a few failed attempts at connecting through port 1863). Therefore, I can't access my own web server, which goes through port 8080. I can't access the school's mainframe either, since it goes through port 21 (telnet, ugh!).
On the school computers (not WiFi), I haven't really tried anything, but I know they block MSN Web Messenger.
My high school blocked every games site, MySpace, YouTube, DeviantART (classified as "porn" according to the access denied message! lol), etc. But they did not block RateMyTeachers, thankfully.
On the school computers (not WiFi), I haven't really tried anything, but I know they block MSN Web Messenger.
My high school blocked every games site, MySpace, YouTube, DeviantART (classified as "porn" according to the access denied message! lol), etc. But they did not block RateMyTeachers, thankfully.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 06:48 PM
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 08:16 PM
I don't understand why a site like wikipedia would be blocked. Wikipedia's a great site, but it seems the people that run it have nothing other to do than worry about if an image has the correct copyright tag
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 08:25 PM
No blockings at School or work at present but at all Vail Resorts computers all sites visited are logged based on the user name used and while not constantly monitored they are logged in case any problems arise. They will only block sites if they are high bandwidth transfer sites such as video and music streaming but only on a site by site basis based on access and use of network resources.
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Theres a place for all of God's creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes.
"You could say that a mountain is alot like a woman, once you think you know every inch of her and you're about to dip your skis into some soft, deep powder...Bam, you've got two broken legs, cracked ribs and you pay your $20 just to let her punch your lift ticket all over again"
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 08:57 PM
SkiBachelor, all the proxys are blocked as well. As for Wikipedia, some people use it as a game. They start with an article such as Cheese and race to get to another page such as Skiing by clicking only the links in the articles. I would think a school would be fine with people using an encyclopedia? Oh, and of course Flickr, Photobucket, and Webshots are blocked as well.
Just as an example, the Timerline Lodge website is blocked in the alcohol category. They probably had an event or something with a dirty word such as wine.
Just as an example, the Timerline Lodge website is blocked in the alcohol category. They probably had an event or something with a dirty word such as wine.
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 10:30 PM
Check out computerpranks.com and run a few of those applications which will really piss of the staff. For example, locate printers on your school's print server or network and have the printer just keep popping out blank pieces of paper.
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Posted 25 October 2007 - 08:54 AM
Shouldn't you spend time at school trying to learn stuff and not wasting time trying to crash the computer system that lots of people depend on ? What if somebody sent some cyberarmy crap to this website ? Who would be pissed off ?
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Posted 25 October 2007 - 10:53 AM
I did it my freshman year in high school (no cyber attacks though) since the computer labs were closed during lunch and freshman weren't allowed to go off campus. The library had about 15 computers and if you were caught not using the computers for library use, you were banned for a week. So I rebelled because there was no economic loss when other computers were available.
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Posted 25 October 2007 - 11:42 AM
"So I rebelled because there was no economic loss when other computers were available."
What about the economic loss due to the school's IT person having to spend time undoing what ever you did ? I don't understand why you would encourage people younger than you to engage in behavior that is destructive and probably illegal. I thought this website was about chairlifts and the ski resort industry, not about how to high school kids can unlock facebook pages on school computers, or how to disable computers that are probably funded by tax dollars ? If you don't own the computer then you really don't have any say as to what is or isn't blocked on that computer. Have respect for other people's property and be thankful that you have access to it.
What about the economic loss due to the school's IT person having to spend time undoing what ever you did ? I don't understand why you would encourage people younger than you to engage in behavior that is destructive and probably illegal. I thought this website was about chairlifts and the ski resort industry, not about how to high school kids can unlock facebook pages on school computers, or how to disable computers that are probably funded by tax dollars ? If you don't own the computer then you really don't have any say as to what is or isn't blocked on that computer. Have respect for other people's property and be thankful that you have access to it.
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Posted 25 October 2007 - 11:57 AM
There was no economic loss because a simple restart would fix the problem. It wasn't like it had to go IT department to get fixed. If your curious what I did, I found a java program that would make Windows look like a Mac OS. If you would have known the library teachers at my school, you probably would have rebelled too and a lot of students did. Getting mad at the students is how they got off because it was there only excitement of the day.
I'm totally against cyber attacks, but if the school is blocking students from viewing websites on their own 'personal' computers than I have an issue unless it's something bad. Schools have huge amounts of bandwidth available and its cheap these days so there is no reason why to block a website like wikipedia or facebook.com. A T1 line can easily handle students viewing sites like this one and the students' parents are the ones paying for the Internet.
I'm totally against cyber attacks, but if the school is blocking students from viewing websites on their own 'personal' computers than I have an issue unless it's something bad. Schools have huge amounts of bandwidth available and its cheap these days so there is no reason why to block a website like wikipedia or facebook.com. A T1 line can easily handle students viewing sites like this one and the students' parents are the ones paying for the Internet.
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Posted 25 October 2007 - 06:38 PM
SkiBachelor, on Oct 25 2007, 03:57 PM, said:
There was no economic loss because a simple restart would fix the problem. It wasn't like it had to go IT department to get fixed. If your curious what I did, I found a java program that would make Windows look like a Mac OS. If you would have known the library teachers at my school, you probably would have rebelled too and a lot of students did. Getting mad at the students is how they got off because it was there only excitement of the day.
I'm totally against cyber attacks, but if the school is blocking students from viewing websites on their own 'personal' computers than I have an issue unless it's something bad. Schools have huge amounts of bandwidth available and its cheap these days so there is no reason why to block a website like wikipedia or facebook.com. A T1 line can easily handle students viewing sites like this one and the students' parents are the ones paying for the Internet.
I'm totally against cyber attacks, but if the school is blocking students from viewing websites on their own 'personal' computers than I have an issue unless it's something bad. Schools have huge amounts of bandwidth available and its cheap these days so there is no reason why to block a website like wikipedia or facebook.com. A T1 line can easily handle students viewing sites like this one and the students' parents are the ones paying for the Internet.
My school has one 6 Mbit Cable connection for the whole WiFi + one computer lab. Ugh.
The rest of the school is on another 6 Mbit Cable, I think.
Of course the whole thing is getting slow at times.
No wonder why the guys in the dorms decided to get their own 20 Mbit connection. lol.
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Posted 25 October 2007 - 10:25 PM
Well I wouldn't do anything like that because we are on user accounts and everything is traced to the user. They can go on and see everything that I have done on the school computers, every website and document.
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Posted 26 October 2007 - 09:57 AM
Skier, on Oct 26 2007, 12:25 AM, said:
Well I wouldn't do anything like that because we are on user accounts and everything is traced to the user. They can go on and see everything that I have done on the school computers, every website and document.
so name a doc called Allah Akbar, Put a password on it and see how it takes for them to notice it......
Is your school pc or mac based?
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