Getting through your school's internet filter!

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I've seen a lot of people on different forum sites asking if this is possible, but most people who know how t do it won't share their secrets. Not only that, but keywords such as "games", or "runescape" are blocked in search engines such as Google. However, there is one search engine which is NOT filtered whatsoever.

Step One: Go to AltaVista

Step Two: Click on the "Babel Fish Translation" link under the text field.

Step Three: Look for the "Translate a Web Page" field. Leave the prefix http:// then type in the full URL of the website you wish to visit.

Example of completed field: MySpace

Next, click on the drop down bar under that, and select "German to English". You can try doing this with other translation options, such as Japanese to English, etc. depending on the main character set of your browser.

Note: I have tested this on a BESS Internet filter, through Apple Airport internet connection. This trick has been tested on:

Mac Mozilla Firefox
Mac Safari Explorer
Mac Internet Explorer 7.0

Windows Internet Explorer 7.0
Windows People PC

Warning: Most school and work computer activities are monitored by your IT Tech administrator. I have not found a way to block PC's from being discoverable, however I have for Mac. On the tool bar on the top of the finder (desktop) look for the Bluetooth logo. iBook G4 notebooks and iMac desktops are monitored with Bluetooth, making it easy for you to become invisible. :ninja:

Another Warning: IT Tech Administrators are also allowed to search your computer's Internet Browsing history with or without notice, and without a search warrant. :matrix:

I highly suggest keeping a low profile while doing all of this, and also downloading some form of free ware which erases browsing history, cookies, registry, etc. One can be found here:

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Thank you for reading my post! Happy hacking!

[MentaL]

[Steven]

Cool, ill try this when im at school. :P

[Dandune]

I'd highly advise against this as most is not all schools/colleges at least in the UK now give a disciplinary for attempting to use a Proxy or bypasssing the filter. Not gonna look good on a job application.

[Steven]

Ah well, me and my mates have so many bypassers now its unbelievable :D

[NoPeace]

I can't be asked to give a long explanation but, if they do it right they can keep you from any site they want. Simply by just blocking the sites IP address in their firewall.

NoPeace - out

[thefalling]

I can't be asked to give a long explanation but, if they do it right they can keep you from any site they want. Simply by just blocking the sites IP address in their firewall.

NoPeace - out

You still can get around it. The only way they can is to unplug the cord.

[NoPeace]

You still can get around it. The only way they can is to unplug the cord.

How can you get around hardware firewalls? Only way around it is to not use it. Which you have no control over.

A hardware firewall takes in all the packets for the network and filters them. It determines what gets passed into the network and what gets discarded.

Maybe if you DoS the firewall it would take it down and some packets can get through but that's a stupid way of doing it as it wont work most of the time and you'll get into tons of trouble.

NoPeace - out

[Steven]

I might have to keep this down to the bear minimun. It only gets blocked if more than 10 people use it.

[Mazo]

Heh, I just use a SSH tunnel to my PC at home :)

[omerta]

Heh, I just use a SSH tunnel to my PC at home :)

weve been given wireless networking in out 6th form area so a simple ssh tunnel lets me play all the eve i can muster. doing it through the wired nework is a bit trickier as i'll need to work out their isa client and web proxy details.

[Mazo]

Heh, that's what I was mainly using it for, EVE =), Due to us all getting our own logins for the college though those are used to authenticate with the proxy so nice and easy for me :)

[[hidden]]

How can you get around hardware firewalls? Only way around it is to not use it. Which you have no control over.

A hardware firewall takes in all the packets for the network and filters them. It determines what gets passed into the network and what gets discarded.

Maybe if you DoS the firewall it would take it down and some packets can get through but that's a stupid way of doing it as it wont work most of the time and you'll get into tons of trouble.

NoPeace - out

the admin would have to know all sites to block before the above explaination takes effect. and he wont be able to block all. there will always be a way around.

[deadly2003]

heheh i use to do this in college but its completly different to what u guys are trying...

what i did was remote access my home server...

but i only mainly did it to change my torrent downloads etc and to send homework files to my college if i forgot to bring it :P.

doing this will allow u to go on any website unless its filtered @ ur home aswell.

word of advice tho... NEVER play games (application based games like EVE, Lineage etc) over remotes access as u will just get suck in fullscreen and wont beable to do anything untill u get home... lol i already tried but u could try windowed mode i havnt tried it but if u do good luck...

btw i also play EVE :D

[Rishwin]

the admin would have to know all sites to block before the above explaination takes effect. and he wont be able to block all. there will always be a way around.

He doesn't have to know any. Every single day he can just check user logs and block sites people have already viewed. We have at our tafe over 500 websites that get blocked each day, they juts watch what we look and then block em the next day.

And trust what NoPeace said about it, apart from DoS'ing a hardware firewall, there is no other way to pass it. Unless you get the admin to allow it. A software firewall can be passed easily but hardware > software.

[DarkKnightH20]

A similar method used in the past was google's cache (back when you get modify the url so that you could browse anything even if it isn't cached).

Anyways, these two methods do not work on the better filters out there. I plan on making a program when I get some spare time that will let you browse restricted sites through your IP address, having them relayed like a proxy. However, the program will have additional options so that stuff that usually flags the filter can be removed. For instance, my work blocks any URL with the word "forum" in it. It'll have a substitution method so that the word "forum" will be substituted with something like "$pork$" so that it'll bypass. Furthermore, it will be able to modify incoming data and allow user-specified filtering there as well.

It won't support things like images, videos, etc. to begin with, but maybe in the future.

[Slaterking]

So many people have tried hacking our school internet

[Mazo]

apart from DoS'ing a hardware firewall, there is no other way to pass it.

If there is a SINGLE port open on the network then you can fire up a SSH connection.

[bramdebouvere]

Nice, thank you.. imma try it

[NoPeace]

the admin would have to know all sites to block before the above explaination takes effect. and he wont be able to block all. there will always be a way around.

Umm....

1) Don't bump dead threads.

2) You can do the opposite. Instead of blocking things just allow certain sites and block everything else. You can do that also.

If there is a SINGLE port open on the network then you can fire up a SSH connection.

But if they are doing their jobs and monitoring the ports they would notice it and then can take precautions to prevent that.

Just most of the time no one gives a damn about that.

Nopeace - out

[Mazo]

But if they are doing their jobs and monitoring the ports they would notice it and then can take precautions to prevent that.

Truth. But thats why you run it over port 443. Encrypted HTTP traffic port, so the traffic via SSH looks as if it would be your average (albeit rather heavy bandwidth) secure HTTP connection.

[omerta]

Truth. But thats why you run it over port 443. Encrypted HTTP traffic port, so the traffic via SSH looks as if it would be your average (albeit rather heavy bandwidth) secure HTTP connection.

my friends server runs on port 443, id say theres about 200-300 people using computer at any point in the day at our school so a handful of us playing games or whatever goes un-noticed.

saying that our tech guys say connecting a mac or linux machine to the school wireless network is impossible. theyve been shown working mac and linux machines on the network but they dont know how its possible.

[Mazo]

Network Sevices: Sitting around and pressing reset when things break =)

[Parker]

Or you could just look up school related stuff and wait till you get home to go on gayspace and crap like that tbh, though once I couldn't look up breast cancer for PD/HP/E.

I got into trouble once for using pussyproxy.com ^^

[Moo]

This is the oldest proxy trick.
If you really want something that works (always, EVEN through WEBSENSE!), try UltraSurf.

[Gun-Nut]

This is the oldest proxy trick.
If you really want something that works (always, EVEN through WEBSENSE!), try UltraSurf.

Yeah UltraSurf works great :D was spread around my college and got blocked since so many people had it :( but I've been using computers for awhile and at one stage while I was modding for a game I came across hexing files :) that's all I had to do to get it working again, Now there is only one working version at the college and its mine :D and its not leaving my person.