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Yelnoc
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« on: January 24, 2012, 09:31:49 PM »

Today my school installed new networking software on the student computers.  The configuration allows the teacher to see whatever you are doing on your computer and listen to what you are listening to at all times, to flash content and warnings onto your screen, to black your screen or shut down your computer without warning, to shut down internet access, and do a dozen other things.  Thankfully, ManageSoft's programs are hopelessly insecure, so I was able to bypass the software and am working on a way to disable it from my account.

But the entire thing pissed me off and so I needed this thread to vent.  I had just figured out a method to bypass the standard netblock filter without relying on slow, sketchy proxies, and then this comes up and complicates stuff even further.  Angry
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« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2012, 10:04:09 PM »

Today my school installed new networking software on the student computers.  The configuration allows the teacher to see whatever you are doing on your computer and listen to what you are listening to at all times, to flash content and warnings onto your screen, to black your screen or shut down your computer without warning, to shut down internet access, and do a dozen other things.  Thankfully, ManageSoft's programs are hopelessly insecure, so I was able to bypass the software and am working on a way to disable it from my account.

But the entire thing pissed me off and so I needed this thread to vent.  I had just figured out a method to bypass the standard netblock filter without relying on slow, sketchy proxies, and then this comes up and complicates stuff even further.  Angry
Like... these are laptops that you take home?  If so, that seems like a pretty gross invasion of privacy.  But at the same time, they are the school's property.  Now, if they were using the webcam to spy on students in their rooms... that would be illegal (and has been done).

I guess I'd try to get my own computer if you're insistent on watching the pr0ns.
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« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2012, 10:19:30 PM »

Today my school installed new networking software on the student computers.  The configuration allows the teacher to see whatever you are doing on your computer and listen to what you are listening to at all times, to flash content and warnings onto your screen, to black your screen or shut down your computer without warning, to shut down internet access, and do a dozen other things.  Thankfully, ManageSoft's programs are hopelessly insecure, so I was able to bypass the software and am working on a way to disable it from my account.

But the entire thing pissed me off and so I needed this thread to vent.  I had just figured out a method to bypass the standard netblock filter without relying on slow, sketchy proxies, and then this comes up and complicates stuff even further.  Angry
Like... these are laptops that you take home?  If so, that seems like a pretty gross invasion of privacy.  But at the same time, they are the school's property.  Now, if they were using the webcam to spy on students in their rooms... that would be illegal (and has been done).

I guess I'd try to get my own computer if you're insistent on watching the pr0ns.
No these are computers at the school.  And all I want to bypass it for is to check my email/facebook/twitter, watch music videos on Youtube, or post on forums like these.
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« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2012, 10:26:30 PM »
« Edited: January 24, 2012, 10:29:23 PM by Χahar »

That was done on the school computers in middle school. Nobody really cares in high school; there's an Internet filter, but the only sites I've found it blocks are Facebook and (oddly) The A.V. Club. Facebook I don't mind, since I have notifications sent to a folder in my email inbox anyway, but not being able to access The A.V. Club when I'm at school and have nothing to do can be annoying.
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« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2012, 10:35:03 PM »

My school's computers blocks pretty much every entertaining website imaginable. We can't check our email at school and we certainly can't go on social networking sites. Welcome to Idaho, land of reactionaries.
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« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2012, 11:10:32 PM »

My school's computers blocks pretty much every entertaining website imaginable. We can't check our email at school and we certainly can't go on social networking sites. Welcome to Idaho, land of reactionaries.

What do you do if you need to send a file to school?
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« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2012, 11:12:07 PM »

Today my school installed new networking software on the student computers.  The configuration allows the teacher to see whatever you are doing on your computer and listen to what you are listening to at all times, to flash content and warnings onto your screen, to black your screen or shut down your computer without warning, to shut down internet access, and do a dozen other things.  Thankfully, ManageSoft's programs are hopelessly insecure, so I was able to bypass the software and am working on a way to disable it from my account.

But the entire thing pissed me off and so I needed this thread to vent.  I had just figured out a method to bypass the standard netblock filter without relying on slow, sketchy proxies, and then this comes up and complicates stuff even further.  Angry

My school has had these for ages. Hasn't stopped me. The usually don't bother, but yet again, I usually work when we go to the computer lab. I browse during lunch or study hall, when I do.
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« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2012, 12:51:38 AM »

That was done on the school computers in middle school. Nobody really cares in high school; there's an Internet filter, but the only sites I've found it blocks are Facebook and (oddly) The A.V. Club. Facebook I don't mind, since I have notifications sent to a folder in my email inbox anyway, but not being able to access The A.V. Club when I'm at school and have nothing to do can be annoying.

Wow, San Jose is pretty lax. We can't access anything remotely entertaining. Hell, even this forum was blocked.
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« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2012, 01:00:17 AM »

I'm currently operating behind the Great DoD Firewall.  It's not too bad.
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« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2012, 07:14:51 AM »

That was done on the school computers in middle school. Nobody really cares in high school; there's an Internet filter, but the only sites I've found it blocks are Facebook and (oddly) The A.V. Club. Facebook I don't mind, since I have notifications sent to a folder in my email inbox anyway, but not being able to access The A.V. Club when I'm at school and have nothing to do can be annoying.

Wow, San Jose is pretty lax. We can't access anything remotely entertaining. Hell, even this forum was blocked.

Ours is kind of in the middle; the big social network/entertainment/(I assume) pornographic sites are blocked, but they didn't bother to purge all the way down here.
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« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2012, 07:29:41 AM »

They purge a lot of sites here. A lot of sites are blocked.
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« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2012, 07:43:54 AM »

Eh. Back when I was in high school we had no internet. And barely any computers. And they weren't particularly new.

Times have changed.
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« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2012, 08:28:30 PM »

We have this for years at my school. Since its a private school, I don not oppose it.
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« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2012, 07:13:31 PM »

We have this for years at my school. Since its a private school, I don not oppose it.
Public institutions should be restrained from stepping on you, but not Private institutions?
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« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2012, 08:59:26 PM »

That was done on the school computers in middle school. Nobody really cares in high school; there's an Internet filter, but the only sites I've found it blocks are Facebook and (oddly) The A.V. Club. Facebook I don't mind, since I have notifications sent to a folder in my email inbox anyway, but not being able to access The A.V. Club when I'm at school and have nothing to do can be annoying.

Wow, San Jose is pretty lax. We can't access anything remotely entertaining. Hell, even this forum was blocked.

My school is pretty cool in a number of ways, that being one of them.
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« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2012, 09:49:48 AM »

That's pretty horrible even for high school freedom-hating standards, but I remember that in AIS-R they blocked access to Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo and all other mail servers to force us into using our school email accounts (which worked well, but it was annoying). I don't think the Facebook existed in its present form back when I was there.

Of course, at CB, nobody gave a sh**t what you did on the computers. I mean, students didn't even bother minimizing their games and other tabs when the teacher walked by during class... But once, during my spare period, in the library, some random teacher who I didn't know walked by me and bitched at me for using Bing. I was like "uh i'm not in your class" and she continued bitching.
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« Reply #16 on: January 27, 2012, 10:14:30 AM »

It can get dumb when taken too far, but it's the school's internet so they can block whatever they want.
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« Reply #17 on: January 27, 2012, 10:27:53 AM »

When I went to school (2001-2005) we were in computer rooms that looked like this:



The teacher was in the middle and had a 360° roundview. If there were tests there were mostly 2 teachers present in the room. So, cheating was quite difficult.

And between 2001 and 2005 there was no Facebook and MySpace was only popular in the US at this early time. And most other sites were blocked anyway on the teaching PCs.

We had other PC's though that you could use after the class has ended for your research.
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« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2012, 07:42:13 PM »

We have this for years at my school. Since its a private school, I do not oppose it.
Public institutions should be restrained from stepping on you, but not Private institutions?
No, my parents and I agreed to it in signing the contract. If I do not like it, I can always go to the free, public schools (which are really bad). I do not mind my school spying on me if I am on campus, using their property. A public school doing this, on the other hand, is awful.

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« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2012, 07:44:45 PM »

I don't really see the problem with this - is this a computer class?
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Yelnoc
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« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2012, 08:16:55 PM »

I don't really see the problem with this - is this a computer class?
Yeah, there's nothing legally wrong with it, probably nothing morally wrong either.  It just makes my life more difficult.  Oh for the days when administrators didn't know how to protect their computers!
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