While carousing the web at my school, I decided to surf to BYOND.com, but, to my dismay, the school's internet filter "Cyber-Patrol" restricts access to BYOND.com,...
I don't think there is any questionable material deserving of a block, but hey, it also blocks dumb stuff like Google's language tools and pogo.com,...
Go figure...
~Kujila
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 Sep 17 2003, 2:13 pm
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Same here.....it bites......
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They block sites like "AIM.com" and "pogo.com" but every once and a while I'll type something in wrong and a huge penis pops up on my screen, so,...
-_- ~Kujila | |
Yea, strange thing is though, I can get into gameslive section and the developer forum, just not to BYOND's initial start page.
-And I can get to pogo by trying their various domain names,... http://www13.pogo.com/ http://www11.pogo.com/ Etc... :-/ ~Kujila | |
I can understand AIM.com and pogo.com. They are online related, and can be used to communicate with the outside >.> <.<
<-Airjoe-> | |
Airjoe wrote:
...and can be used to communicate with the outside >.> <.< ROFL! "Must get message to the,....outside,...before it's too,...late! Argh!" *Shot in back* ~Kujila | |
I've gotten to Nadrew.com and to Maz.Byond.com
[I go to google.com/images, search BYOND, and click on some of them. I can get to any of the [keyname].byond.com by simply typing in the URL] Well, maybe I'll somehow disable it, and talk from school one day =) | |
Its not that the actual webpage has been blocked alone, its because the school probably has some sort of a SafeAlert program installed allowing only certain types of webpages, if you were to look in your cookies file you'd see that BYOND is a programming type website, this probably isnt even on the schools cookies list. What you need to do, if you have access or think you can sneek it while the teacher isnt looking, is to try and access the cookies, you can fix it many ways. The simplest is to go to some section where it says Allowance or Blockade, or Firewall. The symbol is usually a check mark. Go in there and click "Add Website" Then just type in the http for byond.com, and bingo, you now have access to all of BYOND's links.
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Bah! Access the cookies?! I can't even open My Computer. The start menu is limited to shut down and log off! I can do nothing
/me takes a teacher hostage "What's your ID# and password? [gun cocked]" <-Airjoe-> | |
Conjuror -
The filter is a program running on the PCs, I assume it is run on the school server, or perhaps even a district-wide server, which I have no access to. As for the cookie files,... It does not read cookies for that sort of information, as I use easily made batch files to get into the C: drive (generally blocked) and look around for crap. Iv'e tried erasing Temp. Internet Files and cookies, yet to no avail... :-/ Ah, well,... ~Kujila | |
My old high school blocked BYOND intentionally a couple years ago. My friend and I managed to get it on about 40% of the school's computers, and a lot of people would play BYOND games instead of doing their work.
Before I graduated I found a way to get around the ban without them knowing, and Blaine High School has been a fair sized center of BYOND activity ever since. | |
Hehehe,...
I wish we could get everyone at my school "into" BYOND,... that would be great,... 'Prolly be fairly easy as well, seing as my school is technology oriented in the first place *hugs palm m515 school handed out* ~Kujila | |
My school has almost everything that has to send personal information from the computer to the page(ie cookies) blocked out. It is blocked out through their proxy server which I can directly do absolutely nothing about.. I did however find out how to get around a few things by logging in first, and then going to my HUB in order to reach the developer part of BYOND. Strange, but I'm quite sure this is the same problem your having.
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Probably... :-/
Anyhow, if your schools' server allows execution of DOS batch files, you can get into all sorts of stuff you normally can't... For instance, my school blocks the C: Drive access in addition to the Command-Prompt box (Windows XP). Well, unlike last year, the PCs let me execute .bat files, so all you have to do is something like this @echo off @command C: @cls and save it as a batch file and voila! Also, I got access to the C: drive in windows explorer by doing something like this: @echo off @explorer.exe C: @cls I cannot remember exactly how they both went, so these are not guaranteed (spelling?) to work,... :-/ It's worth a shot, though... -My school at one point restricted so many things that the "Back" and "Foward" buttons of Internet Explorer were taken off,... as well as the "View Source" IE command,... crazy folks.... ~Kujila | |
@echo off You have two @'s too many. The echo off instruction suppresses batch-file output, so using the @ modifier to suppress batch-file output is useless on all but the echo off instruction. =) | |
Well...given that I work for a school system and am one of the two that actually run the district filtering server, I guess I should respond...
First of all, its a school. You go there to learn, not play games. Being that BYOND is mostly a gaming community, this falls into something that could arguably be blocked. However, this could also be useful for a programming class. Also, if there were any educational games, then that would be another positive mark. Second, most school systems have an acceptible use policy for using computers and/or the internet. The one developed for where I work (developed before I started working there) is as follows: USE OF INTERNET REGULATIONS The Richland School Board provides access to the Internet to students, teachers, staff and administrators. The Internet is a very exciting educational tool which can greatly benefit schools. Research, collaborative learning, and exchange of educational ideas and information are regularly pursued on the Internet. The Board believes that there are appropriate regulations to maximize effective educational use of the Internet and minimize abuse of the opportunity being provided to our schools. Ethical, efficient and legal use of any network is the key to a successful linkage with the Internet. Accordingly, regulations for participation by anyone on the Internet shall include but not be limited to the following:
Use of the Internet is a privilege, and any inappropriate use may result in appropriate disciplinary action and loss of privileges to use the Internet. Violation of this policy may constitute suspension and/or revocation of Internet access and related privileges and could lead to school disciplinary action, and/or legal action. Suspension of Internet privileges shall automatically result for any user who accesses, sends, receives, or configures electronically any profane or obscene language or pictures. Loss of privileges shall apply to all students, teachers, staff, and administrators who abuse the privilege of using the Internet. Violations of Internet usage regulations shall be reported to the principal or teacher immediately when observed by any teacher or student. No one shall be permitted to use the Internet unless a completed Internet Acceptable Use Contract has been submitted to the Superintendent or designee. Revised: October 5, 1999 Ref: La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§17:81, 17:100.6 Richland Parish Take note of items 9, 16, and mainly 18. | |
Perusing or otherwise accessing information on manufacturing bombs or other incendiary devices shall be forbidden. What scares me is that they actually have a rule for this. | |
My school has blocked all of www.geocities.com. Which sucks, because sometimes those pages are related to schoolwork.
Oh, and they blocked hotmail.com as well. No biggie; people just log in via msn.com instead. =D | |
My school uses Surf Control, i cant get onto games.byond, but i can get onto http://developer.byond.com but not http://www.developer.byond.com
Its really stupid. | |
The point of this post: The school didn't have a filter what-so-ever. Kinda weird how I stumbled into that one. I'm guessing the security level is pretty high at your school.
~Cam