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Do these school admins not have the basic filtering abilities to stop proxies? Its trivial to do on several firewalls. Education IT sounds like a nightmare in
by drzaiusapelord 11y ago
Do these school admins not have the basic filtering abilities to stop proxies? Its trivial to do on several firewalls.
Education IT sounds like a nightmare in general. If students are outsmarting the firewall trivially, then it says a lot about how IT is run there.
- philbarr 11y agoI think schools find it difficult to compete with tech companies because they can't afford to pay the salaries. So the people they DO get tend not to, er, be very good... I remember at my school the IT teacher had no IT qualifications, she just happened to know more about those computer-y things than the other staff.
- c0wb0yc0d3r 11y agoYou have to remember, this guy's story started 10 years ago. Many schools just contract this sort of thing to a 3rd party. My school used Websense, you could easily bypass their solution by using https or simply having google translate the site from english to english. Additionally, you also assume that there is a formal IT staff. An old roommate I had used to be in charge of selecting the hardware for the computerlab in his small town school. He was a student, his school was too small to have a real IT staff.
- mahyarm 11y agoIf your staff have to access a school district VPN and you want to block random VPNs that happen to use your same protocol, yet not have the overhead of managing which MAC addresses can use VPN services... It just becomes a headache. Just block it nominally to avoid liability but let those kids who bother alone.