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- dgblackout, on 10/12/2007, -8/+134why would anyone want to use myspace anywhere, especially school.
if you're in there, most of your friends should be there too. - neuroplasma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51Any decent admin would already have those blocked.
- JoshuaH, on 10/12/2007, -7/+47Because its the "in" thing...No one wants to talk face to face anymore.
- unclesaamm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+44schools haven't banned www.totallyresearchforwork.com
haha I use it just for the URL - JimmyLin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28I have two proxies from which you can access myspace and facebook:
http://p.ipzy.com (username/pass is ipzy)
http://www.onlineness.com (username/pass is onlineness)
I have not listed these proxies on any proxy lists so they should not be blocked by the filters. They are hosted on dreamhost so feel free to eat away my bandwidth :) - moocow1452, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25I could see it now.
Computer lab C:
Kid One: *Turns to kid two* What'cha doing?
Kid Two: Checkin' your myspace to see if your on.
Kid One: Cool. I'll get on and answer you. - swiftekho, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Even if I had a proxy, viewing youTube, facebook, myspace etc is extremely difficult
One of the teachers is monitoring every computer on the network using a program called SynchronEyes which is essentially a camera on every computer at the school - LCmidas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Using proxies and other methods to bypass firewall restrictions, etc, aren't just useful for viewing Myspace. I'm about to graduate from a liberal arts college with Baptist affiliations. When I started school here, it was a well-regarded school in the South, and the religious convention was only loosely associated with it Then the fundamentalist cultists came along, and that all changed. Now, the school uses its IT dept. not to set up decent Internet access or upgrade computers, but to block methods of reaching the anti-administration forum that was set up by students.
Over 80 faculty and staff have been terminated, forced into retirement, or have resigned because they couldn't stand to see the school turned into a Southern Baptist madrassa. Guess I'm venting, but when college administrators lie, violate SACS policies with impunity, and destroy academic freedom, even a dinky little proxy is a satisfying (but small) way to speak out. - antique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14yeah, this hasn't worked at my school for 2 years.
- sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Most highschool admins aren't decent imo. No offense to all the actual good sysadmins at highschools.
- Nick22, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19"Because its the "in" thing...No one wants to talk face to face anymore."
tell me about it. Several girls I know at school..all they do is text message or write notes .its like wtf, your sitting a foot away from eachother... - Splitt3rxx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13my school blocked all proxies:( is there any other way around BESS?
- MikeMcG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9My school board blocked Google Pages for Malware.
- BlackSheep720, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9i haven't even read the article and can infer that it has something to do with the translate feature. sorry myspace freaks but most blacklists already include that.
- bartrumb, on 10/16/2007, -2/+10Thank you I will be sure to block those when I get in tomorrow morning.
- scootinger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8At my school they blocked both Google translator, the mobile transcoder, and Google cache too. Plus practically everything else proxy-related is blocked unless you use your own proxy. (even then it might catch on)
- ricodued, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@swiftheko:
There's a very, very easy way to get around SyncrhonEyes that I discovered this year: When the system is logging in and its loading your desktop and the SE window opens but it hasnt connected yet, quickly go down to the system tray, right click the icon and click Exit.
Works like a charm! :) - TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Portable Opera - http://opera-usb.com/operausben.htm
or Portable Firefox - http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
(unless of course you have the ability to install software, in which case you should install the full version)
&
Proxies by IP - http://www.google.com/search?q=proxy+list
There is also OperaTor TorPark, a version of the browser with the TOR client built in:
http://letwist.net/operator
http://www.torrify.com/software_torpark.html - Halcyon1988, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Bess is a dirty whore of a dog who needs to be put down. My school has completely blocked all proxies. They have special software that determines if you are using one. I don't know how it works, but if we use one, a page comes up telling us to go the security office, or a security officer will come get you.
- Erowid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I haven't tried this myself, but my room-mate says he's installed Google's Web Accelerator at his college and it seems to let him browse whatever blocked site he likes. Might be worth a shot for the people who were drawn to this topic.
- repruhsent, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7MySpace faggotry = insta-bury.
- boredmerlin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah neither of the 2 ways works on my schools proxy. Lots of people just used UltraSurf.
- Wargalas, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9@eviltuxking
It's not Freedom Of Speech when you're using other people's equipment and bandwidth. When you abuse it, you're going to get kicked off and fired/suspended. Besides, Myspace is for children, sexual predators, and the mentally handicapped. - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Our school blocked all web based translators, including babelfish and google. I used to use Google Translate as a proxy....
- nyrol2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3All URLs with the word "proxy" and "proxies" are banned at my school. If we do a Google search, proxy comes up in the URL, and it comes up with a restricted access page. And Google translate has also been banned at my school.
- Brss45, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3my school blocks google as an "anonymizer" when you try and use it as a proxy.
also i recently found out (when trying to edit/ print a report!) that my school has also decided to block Google Docs, because it is "outside mass storage service". you'd think a school should trust its students instead of instantly assuming they're on the web for "bad" things. - PunkRampant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My school has blocked pretty much everything too. They've got a list of banned websites, plus they automatically block any page with too many "questionable" words, including "proxy." I'm eager to try out this Google thing though, or www.totallyresearchforwork.com haha
- Wargalas, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"children, sexual predators, and the mentally handicapped"
Children = go to school
sexual predators = Oh yeah, every single kid on myspace is going to get raped right?
mentally handicapped = No
Never said every kid was going to get raped did I? You also never addressed the other parts of my post, is it because you agree with it? Children shouldn't be messing with proxies at school. They should be learning math, science, and other subjects. Show me a person who's on my space, and I'll show you a moron. - Ocelot13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2what i do:
use a proxy tunnel to get to proxy4free
then input proxy into firefox which i have installed on my network drive at school (everyone had their own space)
then, surf away
nothing is block once i find a working proxy, plus, i dont have all the ads like the proxy tunnels have - dsforsaken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2cloakbypass.com
coolbypass.com
lazybypass.com
sneakybypass.com
yea hopefully these dont get blocked anytime soon - Masterbaiter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3myspace again? When will you learn...
- freehunter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3A college is blocking websites? That is against the rules of most universities.
- Hardcase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I suspect that the "school" doesn't trust the students because the staff used to be students.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3until i can use google to bypass the "private" block that 90% of myspace users have now , I dont give a *****.
- FortyCaliber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm an admin at a high school.
Here's the way this stuff works (for the kids, mostly:)
Most large-scale business/corporations/companies and well-established school systems use a filter server supplemented by a filter service that provides the filter definitions. At this high school we use Lightspeed. Lightspeed installes a server that filters all traffic from the T3 into the high school's backbone. It does this at the district office. Every morning at 1:00am Lightspeed downloads all of the sites their customers have blocked by hand, push the manual definitions through their proprietary algorithms and spit out a new list of definitions. In addition to this, Lightspeed (the company) is also crawling the web itself and assigning categories based on content, keywords, and server owner, as well as other reasons. Lightspeed, at 1:00am, also uploads the defintions to the local server which are then incorporated to our local filter. All of these proxy sites are categorized under proxy/security or some such. The ones that the filter doesn't catch or hasn't caught, I get from the students by walking around and looking at the screens or asking or crawling sites like Digg and what not.
Furthermore, these filters can also filter content through keywords and re-directs. If anyone attempts a search of "proxy" the filter returns a message that "proxy" is not an allowed search parameter. When students type the URL www.myspace.com, we automatically re-direct to yahoo.com. We did that because students were constantly sending request fro unblocks through Lightspeed's request prompt.
I imagine most other enterprise-level filters act in the same way.
Now you know.
All that and NO DIGG. - tylergotamac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I agree with most people here, plus Google is not that good of a proxy . We have all been using it for years and and because so it is blocked at most schools already . I applaud you for for posting it , unfortunately its about 3years too late.
- DaMacGamer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5you would be surprised how stupid some school admins can be. there are plenty of kids (including me) at my high school that would probably be more qualified to administrate our schools computers than the guy who does it now.
- JCacho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Heres a nifty trick: Use this website ( http://www.selfseo.com/find_ip_address_of_a_website.php ) to look up the IP of the website you want [or the proxy you want for that matter] and type it into the address box and the site should display :) worked for a couple of months at my school till they figured out what we were doing and blocked those too, but then we started using a combination of IPs and proxies [looking up the IPs of the proxy sites or using proxy sites and the IP addresses and such.] Hope it helps!
- dnthomps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Did anybody notice that Google's http://www.google.com/gwt/n site redirects the url of http://digg.com to http://diggriver.com/ ?
- PLAYER36, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Slightly off topic, but...
I don't care about myspace, but I would at least like to get to digg at school! Why would you block digg? Anyone else have this problem? Anyway, I'll try this tomorrow. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Im a sysadmin for my workplace.
Thanks, everyone. Appreciate the help. - omarciddo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My school actually blocked Google Images for porn, so that screws up a lot of what you can do with Google.
- fullphaser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What are diggers? In middle school? Christ proxies for myspace, hell there are far better uses for proxies at school that don't involve some lame ass translation service. I am disappointed digg, disappointed; dugg down as lame.
- Xpoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Old / late?
- championchap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ive had 2 of my URLs blocked by the college, its amazing how fast thaose proxy pages id set up for myself and a couple friends had spread around.
If id had any sense id have loaded them up with a few ads and made some money out of it.
Ahh well, next time!
Oh, also.. this dosnt work in my college, they block certain keywords. As you should be able to see there is still the words "myspace" in the url of the google proxy.
This becomes quite frustrating when attempting to read up on a subject thats linked to a url with one of the blocked keywords. - PRocker267, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My school blocks any URL with the word "myspace" or "proxy" in it =
- dagooh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thank you, that's very nice of you.
- DaMacGamer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@wargalas:
how dare you insult the mentally handicapped like that! - andburn1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've seen this at least twice before, and my school does block against this kind of usage of Google. Seriously, your school's filters must be pretty ***** if you can beat them this easily. The only way I can beat mine is tunneling or remote access to my computer at home.
- mpower512, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2My school uses WebSense, but I really think the IT guy should be more concerned about kids destroying the semi-decent computers we have. Many of them don't even boot anymore despite only being a few years old (2.8GHz Dells).
Another problem is their use of Novell. Worst software ever. -
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