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Some one please help me to get around the blocks placed on certain sites by my LAN. I work for the school system and obviously they have everything blocked for security so that students can not access email or chat sites. I simply need to check my yahoo email acct. daily from work. Last year we had students who could "proxy" or go to a site that would proxy them into any site they wished to visit. Please help!
go to your system admin and ask REALLY nicely....
And maybe ...because you are not a student that you would be allowed to access your yahoo account
As for circumventing the security measures put in place to protect your LAN...being an employee..you may want to rethink that...cause if you get caught trying to get around the AUP....you may be looking for a job....really soon.. :eek:
MLF
If you have a valid "need" to check your yahoo account, talk to the admins of the network and see where that gets you. Its their network, and if they have blocked it that means they don't want people going there.
I have a "need" to watch HBO, but bypassing the cable companies scrambling is still a bad idea.
Not to be mean but didn't you learn your lesson the last time you asked for help on an end around (aka the 'Spying Spouse Fiasco')?
Plus no need to double post.
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=267229
Perhaps you may benefit from Valhallen's post
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=267187
Don't compromise your LAN....................get yourself a laptop and use dial-up or get your Admins to set up a dial-up connection on an old non-network connected box.
Yahoo e-mail isn't rocket science, so that will be plenty good enough.
WELL getting into HBO that is blocked is illegal! Our It gave us a site to proxy around for this type thing a couple of years ago. NO one seems to remember what it is. THe one and only it we have is a good friend of mine. In order for him to let me in he has to unblock yahoo for the entire county. This would allow students to view yahoo personals and emails and use yahoo messenger. There is simply a way this can be done from my local computer and not wreck such havok. That is why I asked. So NO YOU do not need to bypass the cable company into hbo that is highly illegal. What in the hell did that have to do with this anyway?
Maybe the technologies changed in the last coupla years and they can unblock you...
I would take NIHILs suggestion and get adialup account..
Did you try and talk to the sys admin???
What did they say????
MLF
I worked for the board of education for a short while in my state and Know that for the most part they cant fill requests like this. the filters are set before the net even hits the schools computers. What I would suggest is you forward your yahoo mail to your board of education account.
What part don't you get? Your friend doesn't want you to do it so why put your friend in an awkward position??? :rolleyes:Quote:
THe one and only it we have is a good friend of mine. In order for him to let me in he has to unblock yahoo for the entire county. This would allow students to view yahoo personals and emails and use yahoo messenger. There is simply a way this can be done from my local computer and not wreck such havok.
I have been talkin to them as we speak. there is no way for dial up because there are no phone lines in classrooms . It cost the system or me $300 for a network box. He says there is no way to unblock me with out unblocking all. He is trying to find the old proxy site also. I gave him access to this site. But, gees, he will prob. as I do just get blown out for asking! But thank you for your help.
I cant see why you would NEED to check your yahoo account but as everyone has said, talk to the admins about getting access to it. There is probably a valid reason it is blocked but..... you can always use gmail that uses ssl and should allow you to get on
If you don't see the common aspects then there is no helping you. In BOTH cases you are bypassing something that is preventing you from getting to something. This prevention isn't by accident. It is put there to stop you from getting to something. Yes, stealing cable is illegal, and bypassing the firewall rules is probably against the user agreement you have with your employer. It sounds to me like you asked your "friend" in the IT department to let you bypass the rules and he told you he couldn't do it just for you because he doesn't want to jeopardize his job.
I think you need to ask around, I cannot believe that the school does not use e-mail, and the internet? I can understand that it will not be available on the main network so the students don't abuse it.
Do you have a work email account? If you have important email maybe you should have the yahoo account forwarded to your work account?
Naturally not, and you shouldn't be reading your private e-mail whlst you are in there :eek:Quote:
I have been talkin to them as we speak. there is no way for dial up because there are no phone lines in classrooms
All you need for dial up is a $20 56.6k modem. That is plenty fast enough for e-mail. Surely you have offices, staffrooms etc with telephone points?
First off, zenger I said that about 6 replies ago, lol. I dont think he likes that it will solve this problem but still wont let him view other webpages he is not talking about.
I worked for the department of education for a bit like I said before. most of the filters from what I have seen are applied at a server that is the first to reciveve the internet connection. They lock down most teachers just as much as they do the students. The only way I have seen around these filters (the one I dealt with most of the time was websense) was to connect to the net before it hit the filter (not possible for about 99.9 percent of the schools population, and not without a very good reason, email was not a good reason lol) If the mail is important forward it to you work account (all teachers have them, becasue if it is work related then they cant force you to create your own. so if you really do have use for a work related email account you are provided one.)
There was one way I found being a crafty student at the school (yes, I was a student and employee of the same school) but im not going to share that with you, becasue now it sounds like you are about to create a new profile and say you are your friend who works with the school, lmfao. god I hope you are not so stupid as to try this.
so lets make it simple. if its work related email, use your work related email. as far as I know for most states the email addresses are <username>@k12.<state abbreviation>.edu for public schools. for universities an private schools they are <username>@<schooldomain>.edu
yahoo does do forwarding, so why put your friend in a bad situation (yes, asking him/her to break the ruls is a bad situation) when the answer to your question is so simple.
You all are taking this to an extreme!!! First of all, it isn't against any rules. The computer technician, the only one we have can use his judgement. It is NOT to block teachers from any site!!!! It is only to prevent students from logging into chat rooms ect. I now have the proxy site, it was given to me by my IT !!!!! So thank you all for your hateful and negative comments. I only thought I would try this forum for some quick help. My children are at the beach with my parents for spring break, they sent me some photos to my yahoo acct. and I simply wanted to view them today. (Just so noone will make a smartass comment, my kids attend private school and they do not have spring break at the same time that I do. I am at work!) I dont know how this turned into breaking rules and laws. There are no rules or contracts regarding my internet use! This is ridiculus. I can use my planning period as I wish. We have sharing capabilities and we have read this forum together. Neither of us understood why or how this turned into a bashing session for me. I have learned the hard way that you guys arent here for advice only to belittle and take your frustrations out on others. But, thanks anyway.
Somehow I scrolled past your post. Sorry bout that.Quote:
Originally posted here by XTC46
First off, zenger I said that about 6 replies ago, lol. I dont think he likes that it will solve this problem but still wont let him view other webpages he is not talking about.
Raindarkblue: If you haven't noticed, this is a security website. That means the people here are concerned about enforcing and creating security, not on telling people ways to bypass it. You say there are no rules in place on your network? I will bet you your job that that is not true. Can you surf porn at work? Can you download illegal software at work? No. There are rules that say you cannot do this stuff. Unless you school system is looking for a law suit, they made you sign some sort of acceptable use policy for using their network. You might not remember this but I bet you did. Does this mean that going to yahoo on your break is a bad thing? No, it just means that they have deamed it off limits. Security is about establishing and enforcing rules and oddly enough thats what this site is devoted to.
You said that it is against the rules for the students to do such activity? How do we know that you're not a student there?
if I were a student I wouldnt be here on this site! AND I never said it is against the rules for students to view those things it is just for their safety. I have It with me now. NO we didnt sign anything. LIke he just said we would hate to know some one who gets so hostile over a question would work in SECURITY!!!! the it GAVE me the proxy site to go around it! It is safe because it only allows access for few min and only twice per day per computer. Get a life dude , Im done here/
Sorry man, there is this thing call "professional courtesy" you know where one IT professional does not give advice on how to get around another the security of another. You wouldnt give the answers to another teachers test to their student would you?
I am glad you got it resolved, but we had no way of knowing who you are, like you said, you came here for quick advice. We arent about telling everyone how to break things, and you should be glad we are the way we are. How would you like it if one of your students came here and asked us how to hack your yahoo account and we told them, now all that time you spent getting your pictues has gone to waste becasue someone just deleted them. We did give you several solutions to your problems, you chose to ignore them. That proxie system they have sounds very good actually. I wish my school would have had something like that.
Rain
Thanks for the negs :D ...but you need a harder punch buddy
I think you are full of ****......
If your IT guy wanted to know how to do this...if he has any brains...and was not helping you with out jeopordizing his job...cause it sounds like your IT buddy is just a tech..and if I were his boss ...I have both your asses in a sling!!!!!
An IT person would probably have posted something like this
"I need to allow one of my (L)users acces to his yahoo account without opening up access for everyone. We are running blah blah blah server with a blah blah blah firewall.
Anyone have any ideas??"
and recieved some ideas, help etc
As for you
heres a LART
BAM
MLF
Glad you resolved your issue...took some of the advice offered :rolleyes:
Ask your system admin?????
Blue
Do you wonder why all your threads end up "you guys are mean, I just wanted to do ... blah blah... I can't believe you won't help"????????
Do you see a pattern??
Whether you signed anything or not doesn't necessarily mean you didn't agree to an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). By virtue of working for the school, akin to the fact that students attend the school would also agree to this, might be reason enough. That said, you may be frustrated but keep in mind that many here are not interested in encouraging some to break the "rules" or "law" (that doesn't mean that you are)and no one knows "YOU" (as in the real, touch-skin-talk-in-person you). For all intents and purposes, you're just an avatar/name here and you could be a 15 foot fuzzy blue monsters with nefarious plans to steal all the cookies on the planet.Quote:
if I were a student I wouldnt be here on this site! AND I never said it is against the rules for students to view those things it is just for their safety. I have It with me now. NO we didnt sign anything. LIke he just said we would hate to know some one who gets so hostile over a question would work in SECURITY!!!! the it GAVE me the proxy site to go around it! It is safe because it only allows access for few min and only twice per day per computer. Get a life dude , Im done her
The advice given is sound -- although it may not be what you want to hear. Many people don't want others to get into trouble for doing something that they, the person asking the question, believe is harmless. Sometimes we do things and don't realize what the consequences are (without knowing the details -- and I mean nitty-gritty details -- of the setup at your school there is no way for anyone here to know what consequences if any that might result by pointing out ways to by-passing your security). Anyways, food for thought.
The proxy that you mention -- is this something offered by the school/schoolboard? And if they (IT) gave you the proxy site, do they not have the address or was this an anonymous proxy that they found?
Alternatively if they don't have it handy, it might be something like http://www.anonymizer.com . Worth looking into.
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And on this note (along with others) thread closed. If anyone truly feels the need to share more, start a thread in General Chit Chat (GCC). :D