School Filter

[DarrenToogood]

First day back today, ICT last lesson. They have only gone and installed a new filter system, which has blocked:

- BBC
- Parts of Sky News
- Hotmail
- Google Images
- Yahoo
- HabboxForum

I am sooo angry and had a right go at the teachers. Even the teachers are annoyed, as it is way over the top.

What are your filter systems like?

[Andys]

you had a go at the teachers.
were you like "HEY WHY U BLOCK HABBOXFORUMS!?"

pretty stupid blocking bbc though pmsl.
why don't you just use a proxy? and btw who goes on a habbo forum at school :S

[buttons]

THEY BLOCKED HABBOXFORUM? LOL.
yh well ours have blocked bebo i am well pissed wiv dat. blocked like the word proxy on google as well!

[Kardan]

If the webpage contains the word 'YOUTUBE', 'MYSPACE' - basically any illegal or social networking sites... Then the page will be filtered.

Which means google.co.uk is filtered at the moment.

If you use another search engine and one of your results mentions Youtube, MySpace it's filtered.

If you go on BBC News and it comments about some video on YouTube, it's filtered.

It's terrible.

Then there's another filter blocking games, proxies, chat rooms (Forums) etc, which is based from a list rather than words on the page.

[Andys]

Our filter is easy to get around
They record it, but never bother looking at the logs

[Andys]

Our filter is easy to get around
They record it, but never bother looking at the logs

[DarrenToogood]

If i used a proxy, the head would come down on me like a ton of bricks - I have been down that route before.

Hopefully it will all get sorted. Also I come on HXF during school if I am bored and wanna post in the techno section

[Sammeth.]

The only thing my college filters is porn, obviously, and places where you can purchase things like amazon.co.uk etc. MySpace and everything is fine. Then again, this was last year, it might be different this year.

[mangle]

I used to use one like

www.uploadz.maths

Or something like that aha

[N!ck]

www.math-read.com