Posts: 358
Threads: 62
Joined: Jun 2011
Reputation:
9
08-16-2011, 10:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-16-2011, 10:27 AM by -Infectious.)
Well, I just moved into the High School, and we have new computers.
I was messing around, and went to SF, and I could get on.. so I tried facebook, and it also worked. So I did the right thing and told the teacher, and she said that if it wasn't blocked, we could get on.
So now I am on SF and Facebook(:
Posts: 124
Threads: 8
Joined: Jul 2011
Reputation:
2
That is very odd for a school. I remember when I was in high-school, we had a great proxy hosted at the server that all traffic went through. Easy enough to bypass (with another proxy or a VPN, or even changing the poxy url from the server on the LAN to another one) but gave the average joe a run for their money.
I bet they change that soon, so I'd enjoy it while it lasts.
Posts: 125
Threads: 3
Joined: Feb 2011
Reputation:
3
As said above.. I remember when I needed a proxy to use anything other than google lmao. Since school just started up for the majority of people, I think there going to change it back as they were prob just preforming maintenance over the summer or something. If not wow o.O schools sure have changed lol
Posts: 101
Threads: 1
Joined: Jul 2011
Reputation:
0
Facebook has never been blocked in our Highschools (Canada), but gaming websites etc. are blocked.
Posts: 101
Threads: 1
Joined: Jul 2011
Reputation:
0
In Canada? Well here in BC at least since I was in gr 9 it wasn't blocked.
So for last 3 years it has for me.
Maybe they started it after you grad'd?
Posts: 125
Threads: 3
Joined: Feb 2011
Reputation:
3
Quite possibly, but I remember needing to be on a proxy like ultrasurf to get on lol =p
Posts: 124
Threads: 8
Joined: Jul 2011
Reputation:
2
I remember my high-school days of ninja-surfing lol. All the kids in my A+ Computer Operating Systems and Hardware and my Cisco Networking class thought I was a genuis (it was just a high-school class so not that great of a class, just okay). I booted the Mac's into Single User mode and enabled the root account, logged in as root, and sat a VPN up (using the tutorial I posted about VPN's and Linux). So I never required a "proxy", and they thought I had full access and wasn't blocked =p
Fun times. Also, my Senior year, the school put wireless routers throughout the building, but when you connected you couldn't browse. I found out thought that you could check your email with Thunderbird, so I thought, "Maybe they're just blocking port 80 and 8080's services..."
I was right. So, once again, VPN to the rescue lol.
Posts: 112
Threads: 10
Joined: Aug 2011
Reputation:
2
This is probably because they are new computers. Your teacher will eventually ban everything that is fun.
Posts: 147
Threads: 3
Joined: Aug 2011
Reputation:
3
Facebook is blocked at my school, but you can get on YouTube and some other sites.