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Probably what's happening across the world's middle schools: MSN/facebook/youtube blocked by the school firewall? No problem, I know a kid who can get us around

by pizza 12y ago

Probably what's happening across the world's middle schools: MSN/facebook/youtube blocked by the school firewall? No problem, I know a kid who can get us around it. Here, she says, just google proxies, and we click on the first one, and proceed to enter our credentials..

ics 12y ago
One of the first things I did at that age whenever changing schools was to set up a couple proxies to get around SonicWall or whatever my school would be using. I added a link to my Facebook and usually a funny pic from around the web to the landing page... definitely one of the easiest ways for an introvert to get others to remember their name... Edit: Oddly, nobody from the schools ever called me out on it despite PII on the page and the WHOIS data (I was using personal domains at that point, .com and .info). I can't remember if Tor ever worked, but back then it was slow as hell anyway because even the school's "high-speed" connection wasn't close by today's standards. Further edit: I was trying to learn PHP at the time, and was using some existing scripts along with dinky little modifications. It wasn't malicious, but a couple times it was fun to manually post stats for which sites were the most visited. The type of sites people used it for was not surprising. Regrettably I never took it far enough to do anything clever, instead pretty much abandoning code for following couple years. Fun memories since I'd mostly buried that whole period as "boring, non-technical, and embarrassingly childish" stuff.
- halflings 12y ago
  Well, you were particularly techy' for that age :) ; It does remind me of my childhood though, and that even in elementary school there is such a thing as the "tech guy".
- JonnieCache 12y ago
  Indeed. CGIproxy ftw.
skrebbel 12y ago
I suspect most just use their phones instead.
KhalilK 12y ago
Not all middle schools around the world have computers for student use, let alone internet access.
- collyw 12y ago
  Why is this comment being downvoted?
  - pizza 12y ago
    I agree that it shouldn't have been downvoted so hard as to be grayed, but it's not like it's any more useful of a comment than a tautology..
    - KhalilK 12y ago
      tautology? Seems like the HN community abhors rigour.
      - deleted 12y ago
        [deleted]
Kiro 12y ago
Used to be true years ago before you had smartphones. I don't think this happens as often nowadays.
driverdan 12y ago
We used software and hardware key loggers to get system and firewall passwords. We'd just shut the firewall off if we wanted to do something that was blocked.

by pizza 12y ago

ics 12y ago

One of the first things I did at that age whenever changing schools was to set up a couple proxies to get around SonicWall or whatever my school would be using. I added a link to my Facebook and usually a funny pic from around the web to the landing page... definitely one of the easiest ways for an introvert to get others to remember their name... Edit: Oddly, nobody from the schools ever called me out on it despite PII on the page and the WHOIS data (I was using personal domains at that point, .com and .info). I can't remember if Tor ever worked, but back then it was slow as hell anyway because even the school's "high-speed" connection wasn't close by today's standards. Further edit: I was trying to learn PHP at the time, and was using some existing scripts along with dinky little modifications. It wasn't malicious, but a couple times it was fun to manually post stats for which sites were the most visited. The type of sites people used it for was not surprising. Regrettably I never took it far enough to do anything clever, instead pretty much abandoning code for following couple years. Fun memories since I'd mostly buried that whole period as "boring, non-technical, and embarrassingly childish" stuff.

halflings 12y ago
Well, you were particularly techy' for that age :) ; It does remind me of my childhood though, and that even in elementary school there is such a thing as the "tech guy".
JonnieCache 12y ago
Indeed. CGIproxy ftw.

skrebbel 12y ago

I suspect most just use their phones instead.

KhalilK 12y ago

Not all middle schools around the world have computers for student use, let alone internet access.

collyw 12y ago
Why is this comment being downvoted?
- pizza 12y ago
  I agree that it shouldn't have been downvoted so hard as to be grayed, but it's not like it's any more useful of a comment than a tautology..
  - KhalilK 12y ago
    tautology? Seems like the HN community abhors rigour.
    - deleted 12y ago
      [deleted]

Kiro 12y ago

Used to be true years ago before you had smartphones. I don't think this happens as often nowadays.

driverdan 12y ago

We used software and hardware key loggers to get system and firewall passwords. We'd just shut the firewall off if we wanted to do something that was blocked.