d22k Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 i know ive used an online web tunnel in the past, where i type in an address, and can access 'blocked' sites. its all online, no apps, but i cant find one now, can anyone link me? thnks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 is that legal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 do you mean a proxy website? (such as http://www.megaproxy.com ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 is that legal? I don't think there are any laws against accessing web sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 even ones you are blocked from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevermore Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 even ones you are blocked from? nope, still leagal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 so, if you kicked me off of your website and i hacked in, it would be perfectly legal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 so, if you kicked me off of your website and i hacked in, it would be perfectly legal? I think he's actually referring to circumventing content or blacklist filters at his end. But to answer your question, the act of accessing a web site (i.e. using a URL) is not illegal. Cracking is, and dealing in certain content is, but that's not what was asked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 oops. he is talking about filters. i thought he was talking about getting around being banned. why don't you just turn off the filters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 Presumably he's confronted either with some sort of password-protected parental control program, or some network deployed censorware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevermore Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 oops. he is talking about filters. i thought he was talking about getting around being banned. why don't you just turn off the filters? It is perfectly leagal to access a site you have been banned from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silencer Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 I think he's talking about proxy servers with content filtering that schools and stuff use. Just choosing a proxy server from your browser won't work in this case, since the information will still be sent through your school proxy, which will block them due to content. You need to establish an encrypted connection with a remote host and view the web page through it. This works on machines with local monitoring too (like CyberSitter or NetNanny). Basically, just telnet, ssh, vpn, whatever into the remote box, then use it to browse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 When my school used to block URLs directly using a site such as www.megaproxy.com would work because then it'd load www.megaproxy.com/blocked_site.com or something like that, (I just made that up,) but the fact is that the URL would be different from blocked_site.com which is what is blocked hence the proxy worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulderMan Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 This is very hard at our school. First the LEA blocks sites before the internet even reaches the server. then the proxy server in school does even more filtering so its hard to open up a proxy inside a proxy. the highlight of my week was the blocking of google, to stop people searching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted March 13, 2005 Share Posted March 13, 2005 Similarly with a site like google a few months ago http://www.google.com/images was blocked, but because they blocked the URL if you went to http://www.google.ca/images or just change the .com to any other ending .co.uk or .ca or .sg anything, it worked. Simiarly by removing the www. or http:// you could sometimes get around the block. Nowadays the system has been improved, most proxy servers are blocked and websites are blocked properly. (Oh, and on friday I got told to remove my .bat files, luckily I only had a colour-flashing one, it was just color 4a color 5c etc for a few hundred lines, it looked cool, lucky it was only a playful thing like that.... the whole reason for the .bat .cmd crack-down is because someone (for the 2nd time in this school) did a net send command!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d22k Posted March 14, 2005 Author Share Posted March 14, 2005 wheeee thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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