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Geek Culture / My website was blocked at school!

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Posted: 5th May 2007 18:31
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I was just browsing my website at school, and decided to do some updating, so I went to cpanel, I updated it, but when I tried to connect to the actual website it kept timing out..later that day, I tried connecting again, then, to see if Galekus.com was up I went there, and it displayed a nice newnet66 "your busted" page... I was flippin outraged, I mean I could see my website being blocked if all the game websites were blocked, but they didn't care if you played games, so I was telling my friends about it, and my english teacher overheard, she said they were just blocked things because of some online test that has to be done. But all the more visited sites weren't blocked. The next day I think that someone told that smartly evil tech guy that my website was blocked or something...but anyway, now jouleos.galekus.com isn't blocked(and it now works), but galekus.com is...really kinda stupid....

the only thing that they would have kind of reason for blocking is because of my forum, I have a proxy thing for getting past the blocks, but it's so hidden that no one would know... (it's password protected, and the folder is named bah_py !)

yea...just for whatever reason felt like telling someone..

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Posted: 5th May 2007 22:25
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My websites blocked too at my school on galekus. But the school won't do anything because its game realated and they won't allow games. So I'll just use the other address that'll get me around the proxy. I used:

http://vaulthosting.net/~dab/

That's the url to my hosting. IT works too.

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Posted: 5th May 2007 23:11 Edited at: 5th May 2007 23:11
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nevermind


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Posted: 6th May 2007 01:57
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wow, didn't realize that...

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Posted: 6th May 2007 04:46
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If your site contains something which is designed to bypass your schools security and will no doubt be against their Acceptable Computer Usage Policy (i.e. an anonymous proxy) then, to be honest, it deserves to be blocked. Remember, all of your Web access will be logged and its easy to spot proxy sites due to the way they construct the URL's. It doesn't matter how hidden the page is, if you have ever accessed it from a school computer it will be logged.
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Posted: 6th May 2007 07:23
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Quote: "Remember, all of your Web access will be logged and its easy to spot proxy sites due to the way they construct the URL's. It doesn't matter how hidden the page is, if you have ever accessed it from a school computer it will be logged."


So it is mandatory for the students to accept an agreement that their internet activities will be logged every time they use the school computer?

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Posted: 6th May 2007 08:25
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actually, don't think there was anything about "not to get past blocks" I usually read weird stuff like that so I can laugh inside..(dunno why)
all it went over is not to do things inappropriate or to look at things like porn, email, video..ect

and I don't do any of those through my proxy, I just download blocked games...

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Posted: 6th May 2007 09:22 Edited at: 6th May 2007 09:23
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dude use

http://moreproxy.info/ I think it can unblock anyting

to the ones thats trapped inside of you, this is it!!
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Posted: 6th May 2007 09:55
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it's probably blocked...

one of the other weird things blocked is the mingw website...guess programming is a bit too dangerous, even if it is educational.../me waits for them to block php manual, since I'm there all the time at school

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Posted: 6th May 2007 10:11
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WHY do you need to access your own website while at school?

This thread is pointless.

Let's salvage the little bits of it and make a paper mache bicycle. That sounds fun.

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Posted: 6th May 2007 18:40
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Well, I don't get on internet much at home during the week. Plus, I like to update my website at school. For example, I actually completely remade my comment system, at school, in only one hour(it was a free hour though..)
Plus I have dialup so I would upload anything big through school..


Fun, yes. Safe, no. I think you see my point (lol)

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Posted: 6th May 2007 19:47
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Quote: "So it is mandatory for the students to accept an agreement that their internet activities will be logged every time they use the school computer?"

Absolutely. Do you think your ISP at home doesn't log every Web site you go to? The difference is that they probably won't bother looking through the millions of accesses unless there is a problem. If you don't agree with the schools policy, don't use the Internet. If you then can't get your work done, perhaps you should abide by the rules set out by the people who provide the Internet access.
There are a few points you should remember:
The policies are there to protect you and everyone else on your school network. Downloading blocked content like applications or games could lead to virus outbreaks and people losing precious work, failing exams and holding the school responsible.
You need to remember that the schools Internet connection is usually provided with strict rules about only being used for educational purposes, which they have to pass on to the students. Depending upon the school they may choose to block online games, community sites (e.g. MySpace) and sites which could contain adult topics (e.g. drugs).
Some sites can also use up huge amounts of bandwidth (e.g. YouTube), resources and time which could be put to better use. These bandwidth hungry sites are often blocked by schools too if they hold little or no educational value.
The computers are also classed as 'public access' terminals where anyone could walk past and see what is on your screen. Parents and guardians may be outraged to find their young children can walk past and see older children swearing on chat sites, browsing adult profiles or wasting time playing games.

Please remember, its a difficult job to manage Internet access for children. You have to find a balance between allowing them the freedom to search and research things for themselves, but try and protect them from the enormous amount of cr*p out there. When you get students trying to bypass these filters it makes things much harder and things can end up being locked down more than originally wanted.
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Posted: 6th May 2007 20:19
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you can get past some filters by finding the ip of the host using command and then serthing for that. somone in my school did it, i carnt rember the command. school networks are useless and slow anyway, if you can buy a cheep laptop.

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Posted: 6th May 2007 23:49
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Quote: "you can get past some filters by finding the ip of the host using command and then serthing for tha"


I use to find a sites IP using ping..
This is really where the tech guy amazed me with brilliance, He blocked a lot of the IP's I used, with the IP, I could usually get to some of the more basic sites...usually not anything useful really, and when I realized how useful it could be, they blocked a lot of the IPs...really I think it's kinda stupid..like for youtube they blocked like 20 IPs..still though, what kinda guy looks for IP as a way for getting past blocks...


Actually, this is a server side thing, things are still blocked on a laptop..

My friend use to be a bit of a hacker, so he tried getting into the schools server...needless to say, he couldn't..the only way to access the server is through password protected FTP and a password protected terminal thing on port 23...

weird thing is that they don't block the site if it's on a different port, like galekus.com:80 is blocked, but ftp://galekus.com:21 isn't...

Basically though, I'm ok with most of the blocks as I could see a reason to block things like myspace, and youtube..also google video as the top-10 is always nothing but porn..but google images!? I actually had to take a while looking for how a flag looked because I couldn't google for images..
the only weird thing is addictinggames.com isn't blocked, while most every other game site is...And don't tell me he didn't notice...
Another thing is that most free website hosts are blocked..(makes me wonder if this isn't the reasoning behind galekus) like freewebs...umm xanga...and something like ntlworld or something

oh and anything with the word blog in it is blocked(I made a testing subdomain on my site called blog.jouleos.galekus.com and it was blocked)

meh...another very weird thing blocked is the main website for VFDWin...I was going to download it so I could copy my OS to a floppy(using an image), and I was pleasantly suprised to see it was blocked..

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Posted: 7th May 2007 00:01
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Yea, my school has us sign a paper saying we abide by yadiya rules, but my website has nothing against the rules unless you download a game. Other than that, there isn't anything wrong with it. But I have a computer class where we pretty much do what ever we want, and I just work on my site there because I have nothing better to do.

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Posted: 7th May 2007 00:15
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I download everything to my SD card, and if they manage to block it, I rename it! Simple!


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Posted: 7th May 2007 00:32
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yeah theres no paper that says abide by these rules. Plus they don't crae if you visit your website on free hour

to the ones thats trapped inside of you, this is it!!
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