[Brox] Caught on Proxy

Posted by Broxter on June 5, 2009, 9:37 a.m.

Whoa. I ain’t blogged (on 64D) in quite a while…

Yep. On Wednesday morning we were in the computer room for the second lesson, so I logged in and went on the internet. I typed in the YoYo Games site and then… Damn. The filter page came up. I thought the website must’ve been filtered since it has games on it. Then I did the proof check – I typed in the Google site and then…Damn. The filter page came up. I then concluded the internet must be turned off in the computer room I was in and then… Damn – I saw like half of the rest of the class successfully on the internet. So, I changed the network cable to a different socket, rebooted the computer and went back on the internet… Damn. The filter page came up, again. I was just confused and decided to not go on the computer (we weren’t actually meant to be on the computers).

Then, later that day, at lunch time, I went on a computer because I was bored. I went on the internet… Damn. The filter page came up.

And then it hit me.

The previous day I’d been on a Proxy bypass site called WeCloak, because I wanted to check something out that was (annoyingly) filtered. Actually, I’d been occasionally using it for the last two months. I concluded that my internet access must’ve been banned. So, I sent an e-mail to the guy in charge of network at school, saying that it appeared my internet access had been blocked and that I hadn’t been notified.

He sent me one back in around ten minutes, saying that it was because I’d been using an illegal Proxy bypass site for the last month called WeCloak. He said that my internet access had been banned for a week. I felt a little defeated – I thought I’d managed to get away with it until Wednesday…

Could have been worse though, I suppose (I’ve heard that schools expel Proxy users). But now people keep teasing me about it.

Fail.

- Broxter2

PS: Can some mod change my username to just ‘Broxter’? I hate that number 2 after it.

Comments

eagly 15 years, 5 months ago

Go to preferences. In the left hand bar go to username change.

Broxter 15 years, 5 months ago

Oh. Thanks, I'll try that.

Broxter 15 years, 5 months ago

Thanks for that, eagly.

Unaligned 15 years, 5 months ago

Expelling for using proxies? Wow. At my school they probably wouldn't even know what a proxy is.

Broxter 15 years, 5 months ago

Haha, don't you have nerds at your school?

eagly 15 years, 5 months ago

No problem. :)

PY 15 years, 5 months ago

Which is exactly why tunnelling over SSH to my own server is a better idea.

Unaligned 15 years, 5 months ago

Quote: Broxter
Haha, don't you have nerds at your school?

I was referring to the computer teachers and administration staff, but the two or three students who may know what a proxy is are probably too busy with other stuff. Besides, the computers at my school are filled with malware and other crap. The biggest thing the average student is capable of doing is probably changing the screen saver to a marquee with his/her name.

Notalot 15 years, 5 months ago

My old school (feels weird calling it that) has an IT teacher with LOADS of computering knowledge in tons of aspects. He actually encouraged us to try to bypass the filtering system of the school. As a year, we collectively managed it around four times in seven years. The best one was recently, when somebody found out a teacher's password and used the extra teacher privileges to promote every student to "staff" status :P

PY 15 years, 5 months ago

Best exploit we've found (As the computing class, it's practically our responsibility :P) is to scan through open ports in the network firewall, we were convinced there was an unblocked one - ident didn't seem to matter to the blocked one, and teachers had unblocked 'net. We found it :D