New proxy security system.

[lawtonfogle]

The residental high school I have moved to has a proxy that blocks any site with such words as sex in their title, and so blocks them if they are part of the title to any of the topics here, but does not block if it is part of the post. Is anyone else familiar with this. It seems to be a weak point in the system.

 

[psychedelicist]

I don't usually go to school that often, so I don't know. If you'd like a list of anonymous proxies that aren't blocked, or other ways to get around it, however, I can give you a few.

 

[armyman_83]

I hate the way schools treat people on computers....

 

[lawtonfogle]

NO i was not asking. When the com. sci. teacher comes back on mon. she said she will unblock the url for CF, so no sites that start www.christianforums.com/.... will be blocked.

the bad thing is is that it only blocks things that may seem bad, but are not, such as discussions we have here, but not the real bad things, becuase people try to get around them to much.

 

[Chajara]

Yeah, I hate web filters. My mom insisted on having one when I was like 13, and it blocked EVERYTHING. Anything to do with sex, drugs, certain types of music, all of it. I tried to appeal a music site once, saying that it wasn't non-Christian and they said it was blocked because the music was "tasteless" or something to that effect. In other words, they didn't like it so they blocked it

This made researching certain topics, for school or otherwise, living hell. Finally my mom got sick of it too and got rid of it.

 

[bent rider]

Wouldn't that mean that you couldn't look up certain science sites? Like Mars Exploration? (It has the word sEx in it.) Seems a bit overkill and big brotherish.jmho.

 

[Toboe]

Its really funny. I have that at my school and people look up porn realy easy.

 

[butterfoot]

Technically it is hard to block alot of the porn websites out there. They are getting more creative in their URL titles making it tougher to block by URL strings. I am a security professional for a military installation. We have a proxy that blocks on content and url but still sometimes they get through. We also constantly keep an eye on what people are surfing and block those sites we deem inappropriate. I know schools can't afford services such as these but they try.


-cw

 

[Toboe]

Content and Url really don't work a lot. It pretty easy to use a proxy from one of the websites uless disable IE opt.

 

[Cerberus~]

Web filters are stupid. Figuratively, and literally. They have no process for which to really process context. I've easily gotten around them, and accessed the most horid things on the internet.

Anyone with half a brain knows how to get around them.