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Also used this trick to get around my high school's internet filter.

by hackcasual 6y ago

JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago
I have seen filtering of only http, but not https. https://facebook.com https://facebook.com was accessible, for example. But that was back when https wasn't omnipresent, either.
- neilparikh 6y ago
  Yes, that was the case at my school as well when https wasn't prominent (~2010). I doubt filters still allow https through, now that most sites implement it by default.
- kn0where 6y ago
  Back in the day, my high school used OpenDNS to block all kinds of sites. Of course, setting 8.8.8.8 on your laptop got around that trivially. They also had separate WiFi networks for teachers and students, and because they didn’t pay for a fast enough connection, the student WiFi was always unusably slow whereas the teacher WiFi was less used and quite fast. They also didn’t use Radius or anything, just WPA personal, so the teachers all shared the same WiFi password. Since the student WiFi was unusable and the seniors needed to be able to work on their college applications, they were given the teacher WiFi password, and then they would share it with some of us in the lower grades and it would spread from there until the admin changed the password again. There were also Ethernet jacks in the walls of each classroom by the teacher’s desk. I had a free period in a classroom where the teacher didn’t use the Ethernet, so I would plug in my laptop and torrent at high speed. High school sucked, but moments like that were satisfying.
  - hadrien01 6y ago
    In my school, printers had reserved IPs that didn't need to go through the proxy. And because they were more reserved IPs than printers, we simply put a router with one of those IPs and had access to all of the Internet at greater speeds.
- rudiv 6y ago
  This is still how many websites are blocked by the government in India.
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5 ms·

Also used this trick to get around my high school's internet filter.

by hackcasual 6y ago

Also used this trick to get around my high school's internet filter.

JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago
I have seen filtering of only http, but not https. https://facebook.com https://facebook.com was accessible, for example. But that was back when https wasn't omnipresent, either.
- neilparikh 6y ago
  Yes, that was the case at my school as well when https wasn't prominent (~2010). I doubt filters still allow https through, now that most sites implement it by default.
- kn0where 6y ago
  Back in the day, my high school used OpenDNS to block all kinds of sites. Of course, setting 8.8.8.8 on your laptop got around that trivially. They also had separate WiFi networks for teachers and students, and because they didn’t pay for a fast enough connection, the student WiFi was always unusably slow whereas the teacher WiFi was less used and quite fast. They also didn’t use Radius or anything, just WPA personal, so the teachers all shared the same WiFi password. Since the student WiFi was unusable and the seniors needed to be able to work on their college applications, they were given the teacher WiFi password, and then they would share it with some of us in the lower grades and it would spread from there until the admin changed the password again. There were also Ethernet jacks in the walls of each classroom by the teacher’s desk. I had a free period in a classroom where the teacher didn’t use the Ethernet, so I would plug in my laptop and torrent at high speed. High school sucked, but moments like that were satisfying.
  - hadrien01 6y ago
    In my school, printers had reserved IPs that didn't need to go through the proxy. And because they were more reserved IPs than printers, we simply put a router with one of those IPs and had access to all of the Internet at greater speeds.
- rudiv 6y ago
  This is still how many websites are blocked by the government in India.
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