Thread: Im on DV using my school laptop. What if they block DV? IS there anyway i can get past blocks?

Learn linux and ssh. Simple way to tunnel out to your house for instance. Windows has a client called putty you can use to make a tunnel with a linux system elsewhere.

Could you rephrase that?

I TOLD you. Tell us what site you want to visit and we'll describe it back to you.

I'd prefer to go on the sites myself.

I am very descriptive though.

Hahaha im sure you are.

It seems most kids trying to access sites from school are using proxies. Just Google "school proxy" and give it a go.
EDIT: Oh sorry you already tried that. I guess I should have read your post a little better

I got through such restrictions by SSHing to a friends linux box. He'd set it up to listen at port 443 in addition to the regular 22 port, since the school won't block encrypted data on port 443. That's the https port. I used putty with dynamic forwarding and firefox.

I heard something about a site called privateconnection.info or something like that. It apparently gets you onto normally restricted sites. Not sure if your school blocks it, though. If it is, just search something along the lines of "how to get past school filter" on Google or whatever you use.

Setting up a SSH tunnel would be relatively easy, though it requires a bit of knowledge about setting up servers and such. A friend of mine did this in school, and it worked quite well, though it was mainly for remote controlling his server at home (he's the owner of smwcentral, a fairly big website, so being able to remotely control the server is practical).
The biggest blockade to doing all this though, would be that your upload rate is basically shit, which means your speed in school will be shit too when you proxy.

Why would you even need to worry about this?

Really. DV is so obscure they'll never block it. Trust me; I talk from experience.

Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

Why would you even need to worry about this?

Really. DV is so obscure they'll never block it. Trust me; I talk from experience.

Many filters block all websites with certain key words in them like "game" or "forum"

Yet DV was never blocked at my high schools. Granted, all are different.

I still say you shouldn't worry so much.

Yeah it probably wont get blocked after all not many people use it on their scool cpu. As i type this it only shows the tiniest part of the sentence. Stupid laggy computers.

My school uses a proxy. The server is based in Australia I think. I'm not sure. But the thing is, they don't block sites like DV because there is no reason to. I wouldn't understand why they would monitor what websites are regularly visited and block them-- it doesn't work like that.

If they do block DV, they are idiots.

Is the blocking software isn't local to the machine?

If it is, simply booting Linux from a Live CD or USB might be a simple and effective move, provided your IT Admins didn't feel like dealing with the overhead of password protecting the BIOS Settings on every machine in the school.

Otherwise, as people have already mentioned, having Sindred (or whoever) describe the site to you is the way to go.

If they do block DV, they are idiots

Well said, loaf.
Mzzkc they wont let you transfer anything from a usb onto your laptop or run anything of your usb.

You're not running anything off it on the native OS (I'm guessing XP). Instead, the idea is to boot from one of these devices and run in your own personal environment. This is slightly above your average computer user's knowledge level, which is why there isn't likely to be many obstacles in your path.

Not sure i know what you mean.

You download Linux Ubuntu, burn it onto a CD-ROM, put the CD-ROM into your laptop, reboot it, and while the computer is starting up, before the whole "Windows XP" thing starts showing, the computer will instead start off of the Linux CD. All you have to do is press a button while the laptop is starting up, possibly F8, and you'll get a little menu where you get to choose what you want to boot from. In this case you want the CD-ROM drive. If you're unlucky you might have to go into the BIOS and change boot priorities, which is a little more difficult, but still perfectly doable, as long as you don't mess with anything else.

What kind of laptop do you have? Like, brand, model number and so on.

Originally Posted by SilverDreams

Yeah it probably wont get blocked after all not many people use it on their scool cpu. As i type this it only shows the tiniest part of the sentence. Stupid laggy computers.

That is not true. There was a website I visited in school whenever possible along with a friend that I knew then had potential to be blocked. And guess what? It did. It was probably only a few weeks before they blocked it. But I'm not sure if they are going to be as quick with your school, though. Who knows, maybe it will be quicker.

But does DV have that potential? Nope.

However, if you STILL don't find comfort in my words, let me tell you a story.

I was a small handful of kids who would visit Fan Fiction.Net whenever possible. Nothing (too) wrong with that; I bet there are tons of English wishing they're kids would write for the fun of it. Guess what? It got blocked. That was 9th grade. 10th grade; I was reading fanfic after fanfic. Why? My guess is they reset the filter. The same thing happened with Serebii.net, a POKEMON website. One filter reset later and both sites were fully usable all through the rest of my high school career.

But like I said, DV is very obscure. Even if there is a forum attached. There are and have probably been DV members whose only way to get on DV was through a school computer. They survived. The key words for DV are probably dreams, lucid dreaming, and every variation in between.

So again; there's no need for alarm, or proxies, or whatever else. And even if it DOES get blocked, to the best of my knowledge, filters get reset at the beginning of the school year.

And yes; laggy school PCs do suck.

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