BOO to websense

[ExoVoid]

I'm in a school where websense is implemented to an extreme extent, I'm surprised i can view the kirupa forum, does anyone else have the problem of having to deal with websense?
If you don't know what it is, consider yourself lucky, its not worth wasting your time to find out.
(I don't like websense)

[frost_oni]

ha, i had to google websense to know what it was...wow man, that must feel weird to be be restricted...kind of having a metal plate in your skull to prevent you from thinking....

[Krilnon]

We used to have that our school... but then they switched it to something else... which wasn't any better, but the "Blocked Site" page was uglier.

I don't mind it that much... as long as I can get to my website, there's not much I can't do.

[ExoVoid]

example of stupidness: www.mathsinfun.com is blocked under "entertainment" ... it finds keywords such as "218.296" and restricts them under "private addresses", "tasteless" is a category used for anything else which they can't make a category for... It's evil

[idoik]

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=websense

[[uber]]

hahaa i was a server admin at my school.... i got away with everything.....

[ExoVoid]

Little do all of you know: my school, the most technologically advanced for a high school in NZ. Every one of the 1400 students have their own laptop. They can connect to the schools wireless network anywhere in the schools 2 square km grounds (approx 1.5 square miles for americans). The server is in a double locked room, inside which there is over 20 36-port cisco switches. Every one of those switches has been locked in a rack. The server is in a room attached to this one, climate controlled. Proxy avoidance not possible, the only way to access the internet through the school is to either unplug the cable from the server and put it in your laptop, or go through the schools proxy, which is guarded by websense. If the websense server goes down, the internet cannot be accessed apart from directly through the main 10Gbps server.

[love police]

i work at a school and we use websense lol :lol:

[ExoVoid]

personally, not something i'd brag about, (or even share) as I think not too highly of websense... but hey, do the students at ur school a favour, cause the websense server to shut down mistakenly for a couple of weeks, you will be loved :)

[ExoVoid]

easy for you to say, but laptops are carried throughout the school, turned on and off regularly, so that's impractical, sorry, but a nice attempt.

[prstudio]

Discussion about how to circumvent a security system is not allowed on these forums. I'm sorry but thread closed. Everyone that made a post about how to bypass the network filter consider this fair warning. Most of you all know this sort of discussion isn't allowed, other threads of this nature have been locked and deleted for some time now.