My School Internet

Trigger · 4 Jul 2006 at 18:30

G-MAN2004 said:
Our school blocks sites but only block the full website address so if you get rid of the 'http://www.' bit then it works.

That's what we used to do at work when using SurfControl but I suggested that I create a custom rule in Microsoft ISA Server to redirect certain traffic to a 'Banned' page on the proxy server- the advantage of which is great because it supports the wildcard character, hotmail blocked in three clicks

Oh and for all you lot thinking you're clever by using remote proxies (Which you shouldn't be actually as you're most certainly breaking your schools's AUP), we have policy central enterprise running alongside ranger which constantly scans opened apps and webpages for such code, so beat that

KizZ · 4 Jul 2006 at 18:37

How about mountung Portable Firefox on a USB drive :cool:

Azza · 4 Jul 2006 at 18:42

KizZ said:
How about mountung Portable Firefox on a USB drive

One of my mates does have Firefox on his account, but we are unable to send files to eaxh acount over the network becuase the account we used has now been deleted. Also about the proxy thing, the I.T. technician in my school actually told us the proxy so that we could check our emails (because we are not allowed to check web based emails), but after we have come back form our exams, we can nolonger access internet options which is really agnoying.

fini · 4 Jul 2006 at 18:42

uk_viper said:
best thing we did was a ziped up quake, uploaded it to my server and downloaded it on the network and there was about 16 of us playing quake across the school network, what a laugh

pft! try finding an unused login name, putting the quake 3 demo in its filespace then teaching everyone how to access other people's filespace (permissions were absolutely fubarred) - computer room full of people playing quake 3 every lunch. Got caught a couple of times, but all the admin would do is reset all the machines (flick the main power switch for the room) and tell us not to do it again. At one point he deleted all exes from the usernames of people he had caught playing it - but because it was backed up in the other login it was always there.

fini

Werewolf · 4 Jul 2006 at 18:46

fatiain said:
Hasn't it been shown that wikipedia is as accurate, if not moreso than the Encyclopedia Britannica?

If memory serves the "comparison" didn't differentiate between grammatical and spelling errors, lack of information and factual errors - it was also done using articles from various different versions of the Brittania (including the kids one), and some of the articles had been cut down by the people administering the study before sending them out to the people doing the reviewing.

Hardly an accurate, unbiases, reliable or faithful test.

Raumarik · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:03

Borris said:
Out of interest, what is your mandate for blocking websites?

There isn't one really, I can block as I see fit. Our software is supplied with a list of sites from the US and we can add more as we want or are instructed to by the council (like www.ratemyteacher.co.uk). Sites aren't just banned though even allowed sites are filtered and scored, if an account hits a certain score for a page the account is locked and they can't access anything at all. It's good in theory but doesn't work that well in practice.

Everything and I mean EVERYTHING that someone looks at is logged, when, IP, username etc. We're asked for reports fairly regularly and I know of at least 2 staff who have been fired for breaching the internet usage policy as a result of my own reports

few kids have had thier parents called into school for attempting to view rather dodgy sites lol.

celliott said:
They used to use websense at my old school but tbh its no problem to get past. Just run though a proxy, nobody stopped me from browsing ebay in ICT

wont work as said above the page is filtered, everything that comes down text, graphics etc are all scored. Ebay even use to get staff blocked until I explicitly allowed it for staff accounts

Trigger · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:25

Kami said:
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Is your school internet supplied by your LEA though? We have two 'levels' of blocking- county filter websites at their end using surf control and then we can also filter what we want at our end now using ISA Server which we've found much better than surf control- awful program :mad:

Obviously though we can't allow access to something county have blocked as their end is separate from ours

HEADRAT · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:31

LOL when I was at school we have a Research Machines 380Z, fear this beast:-

no Internet for me back then

I can remember we had a fire in our computer room and we thought the 380Z was toast, no such thing, the keyboards was a little crispy around the edges but the 380Z was unhurt!

HEADRAT

reflex · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:42

My school block sites in English, so often people just convert the language to Traditional chinese and then back again lol.

sniffy · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:52

Our college's filter is pretty good actually. Only been blocked when researching coffee shops in Amsterdam which is understandable.

Nice solution reflex

G-MAN2004 · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:56

And isn't it a school 'intranet' rather than internet?

EDIT: Or i'm being a noob and haven't read it correctly...

Kreeeee · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:58

I just remotely controlled my home PC. Is really easy to do and makes it easy to bypass security.

Raymond Lin · 4 Jul 2006 at 20:02

Werewolf said:
personally i'd be thanking the admin who blocked wikipedia - it's handy at times but not something i would ever recommend using as a resource for schoolwork etc as there are next to no checks on the accuracy of the information.

Ditto, calling it biggest educational website is where you are going wrong. I wouldn't dare to even dream using that site for anything but amusement, may be some quick read on a light subject. But if i want solid info, wikipedia is not the place to go. Even thou the information on there might very well be true and very indepth, but the very fact that you can edit it makes make take it with a pinch of salt.

If your teacher fail your work because you got your info on there, even thou its right. I would say tough luck.

VeNT · 4 Jul 2006 at 20:05

Raymond Lin said:
Ditto, calling it biggest educational website is where you are going wrong. I wouldn't dare to even dream using that site for anything but amusement, may be some quick read on a light subject. But if i want solid info, wikipedia is not the place to go. Even thou the information on there might very well be true and very indepth, but the very fact that you can edit it makes make take it with a pinch of salt.

If your teacher fail your work because you got your info on there, even thou its right. I would say tough luck.

I'd use wikipidia as a starting point for more research, like if I needed the names of people involved in nuclear weapons development during the 2nd WW I'd check that up there, then look for more detailed info after on each person.

if someone was failed for using ANY resorces available to them I'd be VERY angry.

No-One · 4 Jul 2006 at 23:31

I remember once at college I managed to bypass their Novel Border Manager to access geocites which they had blocked. Haven't got a clue how I did it though.

JunkBot · 4 Jul 2006 at 23:46

When I was at school, we were encouraged to send work home via email, so in turn just emailing ourseleves the work.

I use a "Gmail" account, and this was blocked by INTY. I just kept moaning and hitting the request unblock thing by admin.

It worked

Chris1712 · 5 Jul 2006 at 00:33

Used t love farting around on the school network. First of discovered you could type in the //server/share url in word and ctrl-click it and up it popped, bam could go through everyones personal files and everything what fun. Filled up someones user space with a picture of a willy

. The next fun thing was using a keylogger on the admins pc to nab his password, then logging on and changing his password! Oh the good old days, and ofcourse i used a proxy from russia or sum shiz so i could be on newgrounds all day.

bbreezeuk · 5 Jul 2006 at 00:52

before we left are school recently purchased 100 new pcs so we installed a copy of unreal tournament on someones home pc then copied the program files onto a shared network drive (as we wernt aload to install stuff for obvious reasons) so in the end we had like 60 people plating a masive lan game of unreal tournament was a right laugh

teaboy5 · 7 Jul 2006 at 00:05

Only just saw this. Why does everyone blame the admins for blocking stuff. Do you not stop to think its the program its self which has a list of default address and may have an indexing system which scans all viewed pages in its history looking for keys word and blocking a normal stie because it may contain the world "sex". And all this bring in firefox and games on a USB stick carry on, jesus! your at school/college get some dam work done. Also to the above, i cant really understand how you got 60 people doing this, for one where were the teachers at the time and i would think they would notice 60+ people sitting playing a game and i find it hard to believe you have 60 geeky people who even knew how to play unreal.

Meatball · 7 Jul 2006 at 00:09

My school uses Websense, so easy to bypass it. Just use the websites ip adress (you'll need to find that out at home by pinging the website)

. Use that responsibly though