Firewall

crossfire · 02-09-2005, 06:16 PM

My school's technology department has put up a firewall to prevent us from downloading music. Is there anyway to get passed the firewall?

richlevy · 02-09-2005, 07:10 PM

First step. Go to your nearest English teacher and ask for remedial study so that you can learn when to use 'passed' and when to use 'past' in a sentence.

Correct possibilities:
Is there anyway to get past the firewall?
Is there anyway to get passed through the firewall?

Beestie · 02-09-2005, 07:40 PM

I'm not the expert on this but I think it depends on whether they are blocking access to the site or using port-blocking software.

Port blocking is usually used to block streaming media in which case it might not be the problem. If they are blocking the site then you can use one of the many anonymizer sites but to transfer data you will need to "join" (meaning pay them). Google "anonymous web browsing" and choose one of the many sites. Basically, you go to the site and enter the URL of the site you really want to go to and they tunnel you in.

However, if the site-blocking software is also blocking the anonymizer then you will need to keep trying till you find an unblocked one.

Clodfobble · 02-09-2005, 09:25 PM

Well, technically Rich, a correct example would require "anyway" to be split into "any way" as well.

wolf · 02-10-2005, 01:06 AM

That's a really, really simple question you're asking, crossfire.

The correct answer is ... download music at home.

Troubleshooter · 02-10-2005, 09:36 AM

Make friends with the techs, don't hog the pipe.

Clodfobble · 02-10-2005, 09:43 PM

If he lives in the dorms, "home" may be controlled by the school's firewall as well.

Elspode · 02-10-2005, 09:47 PM

Is FTP functionality blocked as well?

Guyute · 02-18-2005, 09:48 PM

...Start your own school...

Install key-recording software on the admin's PC. Determine his p/w to the firewall utility and change it back...oughta freak him out!!

Bullitt · 02-19-2005, 01:30 AM

Ah, this brings back memories of working for my school district, fixing all the broke-ass macs and pc's after school till about 7 at night. Some of these kids really know how to mess up a computer... They thought they were crafty trying to get around the school's web filter, deleting important files, basically making my job even more of a pain in the ass. But we could remotely moniter any group of computers at one time, and if they went somewhere they weren't suppossed to, *zing* computer goes into standby and only we can bring it out...

We would also see if certain.. repeat offenders, logged onto a computer and we would send them a little message telling, just to let em know we're watching.. Sometimes we would watch one kid remotely get real far into breaking through the web filter, then we would shut down his computer.
It was priceless seeing the expressions on some of their faces

02-09-2005, 06:16 PM	#1
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richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	First step. Go to your nearest English teacher and ask for remedial study so that you can learn when to use 'passed' and when to use 'past' in a sentence. Correct possibilities: Is there anyway to get past the firewall? Is there anyway to get passed through the firewall? __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

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Beestie -◊\|≡·∙■·∙≡\|◊- Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Parts unknown. Posts: 4,081	I'm not the expert on this but I think it depends on whether they are blocking access to the site or using port-blocking software. Port blocking is usually used to block streaming media in which case it might not be the problem. If they are blocking the site then you can use one of the many anonymizer sites but to transfer data you will need to "join" (meaning pay them). Google "anonymous web browsing" and choose one of the many sites. Basically, you go to the site and enter the URL of the site you really want to go to and they tunnel you in. However, if the site-blocking software is also blocking the anonymizer then you will need to keep trying till you find an unblocked one. __________________ ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦

02-10-2005, 01:06 AM	#5
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	That's a really, really simple question you're asking, crossfire. The correct answer is ... download music at home. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	Make friends with the techs, don't hog the pipe. __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

02-09-2005, 09:25 PM	#4
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Well, technically Rich, a correct example would require "anyway" to be split into "any way" as well.

02-10-2005, 09:43 PM	#7
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	If he lives in the dorms, "home" may be controlled by the school's firewall as well.

02-10-2005, 09:47 PM	#8
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Is FTP functionality blocked as well? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

02-18-2005, 09:48 PM	#9
Guyute Gamehenge Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Halifax, NS Posts: 168	...Start your own school... Install key-recording software on the admin's PC. Determine his p/w to the firewall utility and change it back...oughta freak him out!! __________________ It's Really Plain and Easy To See, The Family grows like fungus on a tree.

02-19-2005, 01:30 AM	#10
Bullitt This is a fully functional babe lair Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Akron, OH Posts: 2,324	Ah, this brings back memories of working for my school district, fixing all the broke-ass macs and pc's after school till about 7 at night. Some of these kids really know how to mess up a computer... They thought they were crafty trying to get around the school's web filter, deleting important files, basically making my job even more of a pain in the ass. But we could remotely moniter any group of computers at one time, and if they went somewhere they weren't suppossed to, zing computer goes into standby and only we can bring it out... We would also see if certain.. repeat offenders, logged onto a computer and we would send them a little message telling, just to let em know we're watching.. Sometimes we would watch one kid remotely get real far into breaking through the web filter, then we would shut down his computer. It was priceless seeing the expressions on some of their faces __________________ Kiss my white Irish ass. Last edited by Bullitt; 02-19-2005 at 01:35 AM.

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