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  1. rising superstar autumn rising superstar autumn

    Wow. It is stupidly easy to get past the social network filter at my school. It dosen't even require effort.

    Wednesday, 24-Oct-12 14:29:31 UTC from MuSTArDroid
    1. Sir E. Hooves III Sir E. Hooves III

      @fortecadenza School filters all seem to be poorly written.

      Wednesday, 24-Oct-12 14:31:17 UTC from StatusNet iPhone
      1. rising superstar autumn rising superstar autumn

        @eaglehooves It also attempts to block Soundcloud but only blocks certain pages of the website.

        Wednesday, 24-Oct-12 14:32:31 UTC from MuSTArDroid
        1. Sir E. Hooves III Sir E. Hooves III

          @fortecadenza My old high school blocked Google for awhile. I'm not sure they ever fixed that.

          Wednesday, 24-Oct-12 14:33:36 UTC from StatusNet iPhone
          1. rising superstar autumn rising superstar autumn

            @eaglehooves Did that block gmail and stuff too?

            Wednesday, 24-Oct-12 14:36:20 UTC from MuSTArDroid
            1. Sir E. Hooves III Sir E. Hooves III

              @fortecadenza I dunno. I didn't check my gmail much back then. Probably.

              Wednesday, 24-Oct-12 14:37:12 UTC from StatusNet iPhone
          2. Scribus Scribus

            @eaglehooves AltaVista master race, yo.

            Wednesday, 24-Oct-12 14:52:23 UTC from MuSTArDroid
      2. Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark

        @eaglehooves I suspect the filters are actually OK, but the school implementations are always a mess of edge cases and certain groups requiring special treatment etc. Can't block sex terms for biology classes, can't block drugs or violence without messing up health or history classes, can't block weird occult stuff wthout messing up religious education and so on.

        Wednesday, 24-Oct-12 14:33:33 UTC from StatusNet Desktop
        1. Sir E. Hooves III Sir E. Hooves III

          @ceruleanspark Ok, so the core is good, but the rules the schools feed into them are poorly written. Close enough.

          Wednesday, 24-Oct-12 14:35:01 UTC from StatusNet iPhone
          1. Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark

            @eaglehooves My secondary school used to use I-Gear. Goddamn, I used to run rings around that thing. Then they went and got some fancy sophos deep packet inspector thing and that was the end of that.

            Wednesday, 24-Oct-12 14:39:16 UTC from StatusNet Desktop
            1. Sir E. Hooves III Sir E. Hooves III

              @ceruleanspark We had McAfee.

              Wednesday, 24-Oct-12 14:39:47 UTC from StatusNet iPhone
              1. Omni Omni

                @eaglehooves Both F-Secure and Norman antivirus at the same time on our school. I'm actually serious here.

                Wednesday, 24-Oct-12 14:40:23 UTC from web