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[ArPaNET]

lol his parents are already obviously monitoring the sites he visits, so when a site that reads "antionline" shows up... I would think they already investigated it lol.

[t34b4g5]

lol his parents are already obviously monitoring the sites he visits, so when a site that reads "antionline" shows up... I would think they already investigated it lol.

no no no. That won't get there curiosity levels going, but when they check the logs and see that he's been visiting twinks.com i think they'll do either

A:>send him for counselling.
Or
B:>do counselling and return the computer.



But i do wonder what would happen when the mother realises that the father has purchased membership and now him and the son have a hobbie.

[nihil]

Yes, it does log activity, so circumventing the filter set would seem to be both a provocative and pointless exercise.

However I did check out the filtersets that are available for it:

Alcohol
Health/Medical
Pornography
Art
Holistic
R Rated
Automobile
Humor
Sports
Education Cheating
Military Appreciation
Streaming Media
Obscene/Tasteless
Unsavory/Dubious
Finance
Online Classes
Unstable
Fitness
Games
Peer-to-peer/File Sharing
Web-based Email
General Business
Personals/Dating
Web-based Newsgroups
Government
News
Music Appreciation
Tobacco
Real Estate
Banner Ads
Information Technology
Recreational
Books and Literature
Social Opinion
Drugs
Message Boards
Spam
Education
Militant/Extremist/Terrorist
Online Greeting Cards
Weapons
Free Hosts
Outdoor Recreation
Weather/Traffic
Gambling
Paranormal
Web Logs
Popup
Web-based Storage
Political Opinion
Web-based proxies and anonymizers
Hacking
Explicit Art Travel
Fashion
Hate and Discrimination
Chat
Internet Radio
Religion
Child Porn
Instant Messaging
Reference
Internet Service Provider
Religious
Opinion
Comics
Legal
Search Engine
Community Organizations
Lifestyle
Self Defense
Criminal Skills
Local Community
Shopping
Cults
Malicious Code/Spyware/Viruses
Educational Games
Military-Official
Theater
Employment
Movies and Television
Tickets
Entertainment
Block that lot and you might as well pull your internet connection and just use the box to play solitaire

[The Organized Resistance]

Yes, it does log activity, so circumventing the filter set would seem to be both a provocative and pointless exercise.

However I did check out the filtersets that are available for it:

Alcohol
Health/Medical
Pornography
Art
Holistic
R Rated
Automobile
Humor
Sports
Education Cheating
Military Appreciation
Streaming Media
Obscene/Tasteless
Unsavory/Dubious
Finance
Online Classes
Unstable
Fitness
Games
Peer-to-peer/File Sharing
Web-based Email
General Business
Personals/Dating
Web-based Newsgroups
Government
News
Music Appreciation
Tobacco
Real Estate
Banner Ads
Information Technology
Recreational
Books and Literature
Social Opinion
Drugs
Message Boards
Spam
Education
Militant/Extremist/Terrorist
Online Greeting Cards
Weapons
Free Hosts
Outdoor Recreation
Weather/Traffic
Gambling
Paranormal
Web Logs
Popup
Web-based Storage
Political Opinion
Web-based proxies and anonymizers
Hacking
Explicit Art Travel
Fashion
Hate and Discrimination
Chat
Internet Radio
Religion
Child Porn
Instant Messaging
Reference
Internet Service Provider
Religious
Opinion
Comics
Legal
Search Engine
Community Organizations
Lifestyle
Self Defense
Criminal Skills
Local Community
Shopping
Cults
Malicious Code/Spyware/Viruses
Educational Games
Military-Official
Theater
Employment
Movies and Television
Tickets
Entertainment
Block that lot and you might as well pull your internet connection and just use the box to play solitaire

EXACTLY. It's really quite annoying when you go to a site and it says "reason blocked - News" or "reason blocked - music appreciation".

Xiphias - I'm gonna translate to russian now....i couldn't make heads nor tails of that jibbah-jabbah.

*EDIT* - Unless that was a joke...

[The Organized Resistance]

What sites are banned (we have a personal messaging system if you don't want to post that in the open forum)?????

A lot of these "nanny systems" actually ban stuff that is quite innocuous

That is because they use a "blacklist" which is not monitored.

When are you going to publish some of your music?

It blocks almost everything (except, oddly enough, MSN and Vampyourspace.com).

I'll be publishing it as soon as i get a mic for recording with...the mic built in to my computer doesn't do jack. Thank you for taking an interest.

[nihil]

Unfortunately I have encountered this sort of thing before. People buy these systems and just install them without thinking about the configuration.

To get it right does take some thought and effort. This is because the systems are "all things to all men". For example I wouldn't want my employees reading their private (home) e-mail, messing about on Facebook or Myspace or downloading stuff via P2P................. I don't pay them to do that?

Just enabling/disabling everything is not the right way of deploying such a system and I would recommend that you discuss that with your parents.

[AngelicKnight]

Is it just me or has the AO community become alot more AGGRESSIVE towards postings?

Not near as aggressive as the old days. He would have been flamed into oblivion back in the day.

Not saying that he should, that's just the way it used to be.

[xiphias360]

*EDIT* - Unless that was a joke...

No, the first is just an encrypted answer to get what you want. It would be no fun if I just gave it to you without you learning something. If you take the time to learn basic crypto you'd solve that with no problem.

The translation is a realted to the first, but still a means to achieve your goal. You just have to apply some logic there and find out what's going on or what you can accomplish by translating an english site from russian back to english. *hint* there's no translation going on, so you see the page undisturbed

[guineapigging]

Hey all, I'm an even bigger noob than TOR, so I'm prostrating myself for some serious hand holding.

I'm in the hospital for the next two weeks, and they've got the same Securespot blocking setup. Its really cramping my style, (it blocks BoingBoing, facebook, and even Google Translate, so I can't do the Russian to English thing!) so if TOR or anyone can give me a leg up, it would really help me make this stay a lot more manageable. Much thanks.

[nihil]

Its really cramping my style

Oh dear, my heart bleeds for you, it really does OK, I will try to explain.

I presume it isn't blocking Google search? Well, never mind if it is, because here is a link it is important that you follow:

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/

The point being that you are in a hospital, which is governed by Federal as well as California State regulations. The Hospital Management and IT Administration have no choice in the matter; they must comply.

Having said that, I am surprised that they have content filtering because their medical and patients' networks should be totally separate, with no chance of cross contamination.

That brings us to a more probable explanation. Please bear in mind that I know nothing of the laws of the State of California, but I do know that many states have local regulations that require institutions that provide internet access to minors, impose content filtering.

The software in question blocks sites by content category, and it is possible that the admin has selected some of these by mistake. It is more probable, however, that they would have been selected "to be safe" as it is his/her job that is at risk.

The final consideration is what logging of activity is going on either in the filtering software or on the network, or both. Any decent admin will spot what you are doing and would probably report you to the authorities. After all it wasn't him who did not apply the laws.......... it was you who chose to break them.

Good luck, and I hope you get well soon............. hospital sucks big time..... particularly if the nurses are ugly.

Here are some links to keep you amused:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
http://ihasahotdog.com/