Bypassing school/university website restriction

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Bypassing school/university website restriction

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a particular subject I recently got into, for the fact that these people block almost everything.
I know of a couple other ways, but I'm going to try this tomarrow, see this website

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/h/4807

pretty interesting, using google, to translate english to english, on a google page,(wich is not blocked by most places btw) It all seems pretty logical.
Just thought it was interesting :)
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I do that at school every now and then. It fucks up almost every page, if not the layout, then the content. Doesn't matter if you use japanese or chinese even. Plus, you can't login on sites either...
Oh, shizz, just noticed its a english to english version...Lol, I thought he was just saying you could use google translator...I guess I could try that at school. Then I could finally get on ign or stuff like that...
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Are you talking in your dorm?

Or do you mean on public school connections... like my school has a public wifi.

Personally on a public wifi I'd set my remote desktop at home on, a dynamic-DNS server and leave a guarded ssh port open. Go to school and just leach through on my lappy to my pre set up web address set to a nice open port and surf using my home computer. Some DNS servers even allow for port bouncing so you can log into the standard port 80 from your lappy, but it jumps you to the correct port on your server (say like UDP 177 or something).

I wouldn't dare try doing this for streaming video... even over a 100Mbit LAN it can crawl at times when dealing with that much data. But for standard image and text surfing... it is amazing!
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yeah, the english to english translation doesn't make much differances.

And @ Lordofduct
I'm in highschool, second year. We just have like 100 computers that all share the same IP. We use ethernet here. The main problem is bypassing websense. So resourceful kids like me find work arounds. I use an elementary schools Login(me and a few select other know what it is) so we never get caught.

Another thing that can rarely work, is using https instead of the standard http. Though this only works on like 5 actually good websites, i.e. Gmail.

One of my friends figured out how to access myspace, but I haven't figured it out yet, I'll ask him.
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Zalphier wrote:yeah, the english to english translation doesn't make much differances.

And @ Lordofduct
I'm in highschool, second year. We just have like 100 computers that all share the same IP. We use ethernet here. The main problem is bypassing websense. So resourceful kids like me find work arounds. I use an elementary schools Login(me and a few select other know what it is) so we never get caught.

Another thing that can rarely work, is using https instead of the standard http. Though this only works on like 5 actually good websites, i.e. Gmail.

One of my friends figured out how to access myspace, but I haven't figured it out yet, I'll ask him.
ohhhh... websense, they use that at my work. That really depends on what kind of block list they created... for instance my work blocks all BUT some websites... where others create a list of blocked sites and keywords/lists. But because websense is so widely used there are tons of places to research to break its system... it actually isn't the most robust, though it does log everything that you do.
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Oh, my school uses some random one server that blocks site the makers put under banned categories. eg, if a site is categorized as "game" by the creators of the filter, be it IGN or the sites they actually want to block, like flash game sites, it will block it if game is set to one of the blocked categories. I really hate that, as sites that don't have flash games are blocked. It fucking sucks. Could you refer me to a site on how to browse through my home computer from a school connection. Considering its my computer I don't think I could get in trouble. I mean, I should be able to access my computer as its mine. Doesn't matter what I'm doing on that computer...I'll have to check the rules tho...anyways, if you could give me a site explaining how to do it, that would be great :D Or if you want to do it, thanks as well :D
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Which is why I don't use my own log in. Because it tracks the sites.
They pretty much block everything they can. They block both IP and http.
Also, most of the computers don't allow proxy, which is why we don't use our own log ins.

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Oh, my school uses some random one server that blocks site the makers put under banned categories. eg, if a site is categorized as "game" by the creators of the filter, be it IGN or the sites they actually want to block, like flash game sites, it will block it if game is set to one of the blocked categories. I really hate that, as sites that don't have flash games are blocked. It fucking sucks. Could you refer me to a site on how to browse through my home computer from a school connection. Considering its my computer I don't think I could get in trouble. I mean, I should be able to access my computer as its mine. Doesn't matter what I'm doing on that computer...I'll have to check the rules tho...anyways, if you could give me a site explaining how to do it, that would be great Very Happy Or if you want to do it, thanks as well Very Happy"

That's exactly what websence does.
You can try the method on my first post, that works in most cases.
using https instead of http, i.e. https://mail.google.com will get through some sites. Also, you can try to use google cashed pages, do a google search and instead of clicking the site, click the text that says cashed page or whatever. These are the most commen I beleive
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Yep, thats what I have used in the past. The only way is really just to use a proxy, as google translator only provides one way surfing. What I hate about my school is suppossedly if you try to access forbidden sites they may get you into trouble. I mean like just typing it in and get the forbidden domain page or w/e.
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My work arounds are in the event of having no access to proxy controls. Most of the computers in my school don't allow it, just a select few
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metaleggman wrote:Oh, my school uses some random one server that blocks site the makers put under banned categories. eg, if a site is categorized as "game" by the creators of the filter, be it IGN or the sites they actually want to block, like flash game sites, it will block it if game is set to one of the blocked categories. I really hate that, as sites that don't have flash games are blocked. It fucking sucks. Could you refer me to a site on how to browse through my home computer from a school connection. Considering its my computer I don't think I could get in trouble. I mean, I should be able to access my computer as its mine. Doesn't matter what I'm doing on that computer...I'll have to check the rules tho...anyways, if you could give me a site explaining how to do it, that would be great :D Or if you want to do it, thanks as well :D
It depends on what you are using as your client on the school side. If it is your own personall lappy or something then it is a quick sinch that you can't get in any trouble for. If you use THEIR client, then it is a little different all the routes that could be taken to do it and what there system is like.

It also depends on your system at home. What OS you run and security you want to maintain. Windows has RDP built in and the clients at school should have RDP as well and is quick and easy to set up, but they probably block that software at school if they have any sense. Then again most people don't even know what it is and school techy's usually aren't that savy.

If you HAPPEN to run Linux at home then it becomes even more secure and easy because you can either use X-server emulators on your windows lappy, freenx, VNC (very insecure), and others to do it... and even run one through your browser. The browser way would be the best if you are using their clients at school, that way you don't have to pop a disk in with the software required (though some don't even have to be installed, there are servers built off of java that run like normal internet appletts do).

This would be the easiest in the legal sense... but if you feel like breaking laws there are betters ways of doing it.

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oh and if your school will get you in trouble for going to sites like that... any work around you find including this one would get you in trouble as well.
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