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[Itnetlolor]

More to the point, have they seen what 4chan does.

Maybe they are /b/.

[Aklyon]

The first day tvtropes was blocked at my high school, it said 'Blocked.Other: Too Distracting'. Later it had a more official name.

[UltraValican]

The only stuff I remember being blocked at school is 4chan(For obvious reasons) and Newgrounds(Again sort of obvious).
But if you want to talk about block fails, heres how I learned about hentai.
I was in 5th grade, and one of my last class projects was a research report on anything you wanted. I was one of those kids who would write about anime. I looked up anime on Wikipedia and found a pdf called the 100 rules of anime. It was pretty tame at first, but then it moved on to more spicy subjects. This was before the school would give the kids "the talk", so I didn't know about half the shit it was talking about. Somehow it led me into "yaoi", but I didn't know what homosexuality WAS at the time, so I just assumed it was full of pronoun errors. I eventually looked up hentai on Wikipedia. I don't think I understood what pornography was at the time either so I wasn't sure what I was reading, but they used fancy words so I kept reading.

Looking back, I read some fucked up stuff that day.
I didn't even do the report either(the project was canceled)

The funniest part is after reading about shit like hentai, tentacles, and rapist space maggots. I clicked the link to the Wikipedia article on hedonism, and its blocked for "sexual content".

[kaijyuu]

6th grade and you didn't understand any of that stuff? Man, you were sheltered

[UltraValican]

6th grade and you didn't understand any of that stuff? Man, you were sheltered

When I think back I was in the 5th grade then. I'll edit my post.

[Urist Imiknorris]

The first day tvtropes was blocked at my high school, it said 'Blocked.Other: Too Distracting'. Later it had a more official name.

They should have just kept that. It's TvTropes in two words.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Youtube was blocked at my school for most of my time there, but was mysteriously unblocked during senior year. I imagine the teachers who tried to show us stuff through Youtube were angry that they couldn't do so and went to the administration. Or maybe it was because several students showed teachers proxy sites to circumvent the block with, who knows?

[Whitefoxsniper]

In my school facebook was blocked, however people were still on facebook all day because one of the other kids with computer smarts figured out that if you changed http to https it would go past the block.

It is almost impossible to block anything if people want to get past it.

[Knight of Fools]

Blow up the thing they're trying to get to.

If no one can use it, neither can they!

[Aklyon]

In my school facebook was blocked, however people were still on facebook all day because one of the other kids with computer smarts figured out that if you changed http to https it would go past the block.

It is almost impossible to block anything if people want to get past it.

THats hardly worth noting compared to what the people determined to do nothing in my cisco class (or the people who were bored at the end of the year) had set up. It involved a flash drive, putty portable, and a server someone had at their house.

Certainly is easier though.

[RedWarrior0]

Heh, we had a pretty good blocking service through Cisco. And then someone found out the password, my sophomore year. It was "herbaltea" sans quotes. They changed it for junior year, but it was promptly found out by someone typing random stuff in for shits and gigs. It was found to be "dietcoke" again sans quotes.

Then the students had learned their lesson and were more discreet about it. And then they found out about it, finally, this past year. They also appeared to have dropped the Cisco filter and gone with a more direct route with no password. However, in doing so, the blacklist was reset or something, because Bay12 became unblocked.

[Reudh]

I remember the time that our IT guys were foolish enough to leave a list of the ENTIRE SCHOOL'S PASSWORDS in a non-encrypted CSV file accessible on the root level of a drive.

Seriously...

I was exploring the school's computers, poking around. On the desktop was a folder called "Nethood". Go in there and you can run various programs on the network via .lnk files. I noticed its filepath was N:\Nethood, so i pressed Up One Level, and managed to get to N:\.

A bunch of folders, some empty .txt files and:

N:\Passwords.csv

Hah. Every single password, from the MASTER SERVER PASSWORD down to random school students was in this CSV, neatly organised for me to use. And I used it. And I made lots of money by selling usernames bit by bit.

[Scelly9]

Heh, we had a pretty good blocking service through Cisco. And then someone found out the password, my sophomore year. It was "herbaltea" sans quotes. They changed it for junior year, but it was promptly found out by someone typing random stuff in for shits and gigs. It was found to be "dietcoke" again sans quotes.

Then the students had learned their lesson and were more discreet about it. And then they found out about it, finally, this past year. They also appeared to have dropped the Cisco filter and gone with a more direct route with no password. However, in doing so, the blacklist was reset or something, because Bay12 became unblocked.

The one time I was stuck in a school network I left my laptop running and bruteforcing the password. By the next morning, it had come up with "penguin7"

[Aklyon]

I remember the time that our IT guys were foolish enough to leave a list of the ENTIRE SCHOOL'S PASSWORDS in a non-encrypted CSV file accessible on the root level of a drive.

Seriously...

I was exploring the school's computers, poking around. On the desktop was a folder called "Nethood". Go in there and you can run various programs on the network via .lnk files. I noticed its filepath was N:\Nethood, so i pressed Up One Level, and managed to get to N:\.

A bunch of folders, some empty .txt files and:

N:\Passwords.csv

Hah. Every single password, from the MASTER SERVER PASSWORD down to random school students was in this CSV, neatly organised for me to use. And I used it. And I made lots of money by selling usernames bit by bit.

Security is never the problem (unless it is), theres plenty of it. Forgetful or lazy people are.

[Whitefoxsniper]

THats hardly worth noting compared to what the people determined to do nothing in my cisco class (or the people who were bored at the end of the year) had set up. It involved a flash drive, putty portable, and a server someone had at their house.

Certainly is easier though.

Yep people are certainly prepared to do a lot of work in order to do nothing! Not that I blame people for trying to get around web blockers.

The one time I was stuck in a school network I left my laptop running and bruteforcing the password. By the next morning, it had come up with "penguin7"

The penguins secretly control everything. It is futile to resist.