At School, And You Want To Post...

L3G · August 2004

If you already don't have a way around your schools site blocker or your school doesn't have one then this doesn't concern you... Well actually it's not that complicated 1. Go to www.google.com 2. Search Natural Selection Forums 3. Post

I know I'm a genius, thank you!

Nuub · August 2004

Handy, we on the other hand (thank god) have no site blockers <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Rue · August 2004

I used to use the google cache to get by my schools site blocker.

And I used to get on IRC via a http tunneler <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />. My university doesnt allow us onto IRC so I have set up a bot from my home machine <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Rellix · August 2004

Doesnt work at my school, we need to translate them from other language to english, that and it the internet is way too slow.

AllUrHiveRblong2us · August 2004

I just used an old bootdisk of Knoppix I had lieing around to get past the site blocker at my school, but I usually didn't need to, the blocker sucked. I could get to something awful, plenty of pr0n (Although I had to get a bit creative with that), or just about anyplace else I wanted to go to amuse myself except here, which made me sad. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' />

Daza4 · August 2004

I find this anoying to. Does anyone know of a browser based java irc client. Which connects to game surge? All the ones i've found only connect to gamesnet and yeah.

ironpancake · August 2004

my school attempts to block pages but if you get through they won't ever pick you out. My school keeps personal histories which would be useful for the school if they ever used them. I managed to hang out on the internet just reading the anarchists cookbook for a couple days in a row and i never got a word from the network admin.

Schools have no sense of moderation, if they ban one thing then they over react and ban everything they can get their hands on. My school attempts to keep kids from using google and checking their email at lunch, complete bull****.

Thaldarin · August 2004

Best way I found out is below, my school put in place 5 site blockers <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /> I always got round them though.

click The Start Button, Go To Programs. Right click and open a folder. Go up to View, and explorer bar, then tip of the day. Now use the address bar and browse away, and if that gets blocked your better off using CTRL+O and typing URL in then. Never failed for me. Some how it blocked out Norton security and all other filters and internet blockers. Go me <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />

Caboose · August 2004

I just use a proxy server to get past the filters. Unfortunatly.

The Ns forums aren't blocked by my schools filter, but my school is blocked by the ns forums <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

I got banned a while back (I beleive Around the time I joined) and was banned for like 6 months. And it was at school, and when I got un-banned I found that I could not connect at school.

BlueNovember · August 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thursday- @ Aug 23 2004, 04:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Now use the address bar and browse away, and if that gets blocked your better off using CTRL+O and typing URL in then. Never failed for me. Some how it blocked out Norton security and all other filters and internet blockers. Go me  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 

This would not bypass any proxy server, only software (read: naff implentations of) security. (Although it's a good method for doing that though. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />)

Any decent Sysadmin will have policies on all pcs to prevent right click on start menu, addressbar use, or local hard disc access. (Including from IE addressbar.)

Sites should be filtered with a proxy server, and online proxies blocked. Keyword filters will avoid people using google to search for "proxy server" or for using cached pages.

--

Sadly, in a moment of arrogance I pointed this out to my old school's sys admin. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /> Good riddance anyway.

Long live campus 100mbps lines!

Ness · August 2004

Luckily enough, my school employed two horrible security measures. Foolproof, which I figured out how to disable and got the password for it anyway, and Deepfreeze. I got the password for Deepfreeze two days in. I suck, so they must really suck. Since Deepfreeze, put simply, reverts the computer to how it was "frozen" with each restart, I made sure to install Firefox, etc. on my computer, then froze it again. For site blockers, they also use a rather crappy one. I simply have to tracert the page that's blocked, and connect using the ip instead of hostname. Yay for school's that don't know how to protect/block anything. As a funny little note, I noticed the other day when I tried to use the Lunixmonster java IRC at school, I was g-lined upon connecting. The reason? "You should be learning, not chatting on IRC".

Dorian_Gray · August 2004

Yeah my school uses deepfreeze, locks out the desktop, taskbar, quicklaunch, windows explorer, etc. Anything not beginning with http:// is disallowed (so no using IE to get at the HDD). Thankfully, all this is on Win98. Make a c:\ toolbar in the taskbar (that much is still allowed), open regedit, delete the policies, crash explorer, and voila. As for the site blocker, I just wrote a PHP script on my domain (which is allowed) and used it as a proxy. Worked fairly well, some pictures wouldn't load, but meh. Oh, and the school blocked google, as their program detected it as an "anonymous http proxy" (i.e. something used to get around their blocker). Half the sites in their educational links sections are also blocked. I think the only sites unblocked are that for the school and the maker of the site blocker.

Oh, and they monitor your screens from the teachers second monitor. Thankfully theres a way around that too (use the MSVC++ process viewer to kill the process <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />). I was planning to bypass deepfreeze, but frankly I like having it. Saves me from having to cover my tracks myself <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

I would use a *nix boot CD to grab the SAM file off the XP machines (these ones are configured quite well, haven't found a way around the policies yet, since regedit, regedit32 and gpedit are all blocked, so are all the buttons on the ctrl+alt+del popup, and the task manager, etc), but the machines are in sealed locked boxes. This does have the interesting side effect of causing the computers to overheat every 10-15 minutes. The only hole in the case is a circle about 4 cm wide since cables need to go in/out.

Edit: Thankfully the teachers are all incompetent (one called tech support because her "TV thingy" was "broke" - turned out she didn't turn either the monitor or computer on). They thankfully can't tell the difference between coding apps to get around their security and typing out an essay on Ibsen's "A Doll's House".

Jim · August 2004

My college use a web filter AND a program called "securus", which takes screenshots of your screen when it detects a webpage which meets certain critera (ie. pr0n, games etc) and files them on a server for the techies to sort through at a later date. Seems a little OTT for a college but we are attached to a school so they have made it network-wide <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' />

It's great fun trying to outsmart the admin though <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Cold_NiTe · August 2004

My old School used Deepfreeze and X-Stop for internet security. I didn't really bother with the deep freeze because I reserved myself some space on the harddrive that it couldn't tamper with, then I used a Anonymity program called Steganos to get around the X-stop blocker. That or a proxy server later on in the year.

That_Annoying_Kid · August 2004

hafhafhaf circumvention blocking software

I used a proxy the kind that is explained @ peacefire.org and just figured out how to use the crappy blocking program against itself, then I had to figure out about host blocking which is what the gov does.

RaVe · August 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BlueNovember @ Aug 23 2004, 06:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thursday- @ Aug 23 2004, 04:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Now use the address bar and browse away, and if that gets blocked your better off using CTRL+O and typing URL in then. Never failed for me. Some how it blocked out Norton security and all other filters and internet blockers. Go me </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

This would not bypass any proxy server, only software (read: naff implentations of) security. (Although it's a good method for doing that though. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />)

Any decent Sysadmin will have policies on all pcs to prevent right click on start menu, addressbar use, or local hard disc access. (Including from IE addressbar.)

Sites should be filtered with a proxy server, and online proxies blocked. Keyword filters will avoid people using google to search for "proxy server" or for using cached pages.

--

Sadly, in a moment of arrogance I pointed this out to my old school's sys admin. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /> Good riddance anyway.

Long live campus 100mbps lines!  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Sadly, opening the Start Menu and double clicking on Programs will open up the Programs folder. Now all you have to do is hit Up One Level and voila, you are now in the root of the main hard drive!

I use it all the time <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />

Rellix · August 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thursday- @ Aug 23 2004, 09:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Best way I found out is below, my school put in place 5 site blockers <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /> I always got round them though.

click The Start Button, Go To Programs. Right click and open a folder. Go up to View, and explorer bar, then tip of the day. Now use the address bar and browse away, and if that gets blocked your better off using CTRL+O and typing URL in then. Never failed for me. Some how it blocked out Norton security and all other filters and internet blockers. Go me <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Oh my school disabled right click out of applications, makes making new folders and renaiming a lot longer.

But the COMPANY running my SCHOOLS network are a bunch of ideots, right now nobody in a Glasgow school can install flash....oh and sending email from the internal system tends to result in getting there 1/5 tries.

Tis ok tho I live 15 meters away from my school <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

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