If you are student reading this (or anyone else for that matter), be careful what you post. ![]() There are a crap ton more out there…simply search for myspace proxy or facebook proxy. If you are curious what is being used by students, here are some that a few have posted here at Borkweb: ![]() Since the onset of schools blocking sites, there have been an eruption on proxy sites free, signup required, ad fueled, etc. These proxies allow users to browse sites under the guise of other sites’ addresses. To subvert the blocks schools create, students are resorting to the use of Proxies. It causes them to continue to participate in posting risque information, blissfully ignorant of the damage it can cause to their reputation and/or the danger it poses to them due to stalkers. Wrong move, it teaches the students nothing. Schools attempt to stop this kind of behavior by forcefully blocking the sites. provocative photos, under-aged drinking, etc). MySpace and similar sites help fuel the passing of information and breaks down social barriers…which is a great thing! But what the schools and many parents are seeing is that many people feel secure in the sites’ use and tend to post fairly revealing bits of information (e.g. That example is not only a testament to the numbers of users, but both the benefits and the the drawbacks of such software. “This message said two boys were planning to show up at school with guns.” “About mid morning today we were able to confirm that the web site ‘MySpace-dot-com’ allowed several students to post threatening messages on it’s web site, messages threatening Warren High School,” Pascual Gonzales of the Northside School District said. To get an idea about how much High School students seem to be attached to social sites such as this, I’ll bring up the following article I found at WOAI via Wikipedia.Īll but 400 of the 3,000 students at San Antonio Warren High School either didn’t show up or walked out of class today due to threats against the school posted on a popular teen web site, 1200 WOAI news reported today. The hordes of students frequenting these sites is truly amazing. This type of following is not localized to just universities. Like the other schools on, over 60% of them log in every 24 hours. There are 3,975 registered users at Plymouth State University. My friend, Zach mentions (via our mutual friend Casey): The web is extremely social and is growing more so as time progresses. Now, its important to note that the blocking of these social sites seem to be localized to Elementary and High Schools, not higher education institutions.īlocking social sites like this has been met with heavy opposition by those users that are directly affected by such blocks. ![]() Over the past few months I have seen a number of comment come in regarding…well…not threats from schools, but blocking of such sites by educational institutions. In November I blogged about Pope John XXIII Regional High School in Sparta New Jersey and their forcing of students to stop using sites like MySpace, Xanga, and Facebook. Once you’ve tweaked the template added your allowed clients (see the article) started the proxy server and pointed your device at the proxy server, you should be good to go! Posted in Blog, Technology | Tagged proxy, squid, squidman, testing I enter the following on mine: 10.0.0.0/16 On the “Clients” tab of SquidMan preferencesĪdd an entry for your IP range. The article suggests using SquidMan as a proxy, largely because it is fairly easy to set up and it’s free.Īs Egalo explains, there’s two lines in the Squid template (conf file) that need some loving: Comment out the http_access deny to_localhost line like so: # protect web apps running on the proxy host from external usersĪnd add the following line (and comment) in the file somewhere – I threw it at the bottom: # hosts file This article on Egalo told me how to do it.Įssentially, you run a Proxy Server from your laptop and point your device at the proxy in the wifi settings. I wanted to be able to access my localhost from my iPhone.
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